Dalida
- heavy
- bleak
Heavy, steady, measured music / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
Our read · Dalida (2017) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded music · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Dalida
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a tragic biopic tracing a legendary singer's rise and repeated falls.”
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The reading.
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