2012 · documentary · history · science
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Directed by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige1h 33m2012
Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary.
Our read: The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012) reads as a warm, steady, inventive documentary · history · science entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / history, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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