Sous le ciel d'Alice (2020)
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Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury, Jade Breidi, Odette Makhlouf
A Swiss woman moves to 1950s Lebanon, falls in love with an astrophysicist, and builds a life that war soon puts in jeopardy.
The story
In the 1950s, Alice leaves Switzerland for Lebanon, where she falls in love with Joseph, an astrophysicist whose dream is to send the first Lebanese person into space. She quickly finds her place in Joseph’s family and shares several years of dolce vita. The idyll does not last undisturbed: war eventually throws their seemingly paradisiacal life into question, threatening the stability Alice has built in her new home.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the 1950s, Alice leaves Switzerland for Lebanon. There, she falls madly in love with Joseph, an astrophysicist who dreams of sending the very first Lebanese person into space. Alice quickly finds her place in Joseph’s family. However, after a few years of dolce vita, this paradise is thrown into question by war.
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