L-Drama: LAILA’S BIRTHDAY (2008)

The drama that starts with an L is LAILA'S BIRTHDAY (2008) by Rashid Masharawi

This could've been a comedy if I hadn't been on edge the entire time, if someone had told me "don't worry, only one person dies and you never see them". But that death is ridiculous: a missile falls from the sky. A senseless random death.

There is no way not to be on edge. Everyone is on edge, even the donkey. Everything is so absurd when your people is not free. You pick up the phone and say: "Yeah I'm under a table, I'll call you later" in the middle of a shelling. I need to watch this film again.

All the actors in this movie are sensational. It almost feels like a documentary! The lead actor Mohammad Bakri reminds me so much of the late French actor Jean-Pierre Bacri. Apparently, Mohammad Bakri passed away too, last December 24. He was only 72.

I have a playlist of Palestinian movies on my YouTube channel. LAILA'S BIRTHDAY is one of them.

Up next on my watchlist: a queer romance that starts with M, a non-queer romance that start with N, a biopic that starts with O.