2017 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. Ziad Doueiri · France, Lebanon · Arabic, French
Words change everything.
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
"As a study of inflammation in the body politic, "The Insult" is engaged and astute. In comparison with "West Beirut," though, it seems oddly programmatic in its moral layout, designed to prove that, in Wajdi's phrase, "no one has a monopoly on suffering.""
— Anthony Lane
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"For all its bluntness, The Insult confronts us with the true complexity of the Middle Eastern conflict and the ways in which war obliterates the ideas of victimhood and responsibility, rendering the justice system farcically inadequate."
— Devika Girish