Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLebanese multihyphenate Nadine Labaki’s most recent directorial effort, the Oscar-nominated “Capernaum,” shed light on Beirut’s desperation before her city was blasted last year by one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded.
She is in Venice this year as an actor in Mounia Akl’s first feature “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” which against all odds started shooting two months after the blast, also defying the pandemic and Lebanon’s economic collapse.The potent pic, which screened in Venice Horizons, sees Labaki and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (“The Band’s Visit”) playing Soraya and Walid, a couple who have left Beirut with their children for an idyllic, isolated life in the Lebanese mountains,.
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