Beirut (2018)

Beirut (2018)

In 1972, Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) is a U.S. diplomat living the good life in Beirut with his wife Nadia (Leila Bekhti). They have no children of their own, as yet, but treat 13-year-old orphan refugee Karim (Yoav Sadian Rosenberg) as “part of the family.” During a posh cocktail party, however, uninvited guests bring unwelcome news: Not quite so alone in the world as he’d pretended, little Karim has an older brother, and he’s no less than Abu Rajal (Hicham Ouraqa), a notorious Palestinian terrorist linked to the recent Summer Olympics massacre in Munich as well as other attacks.

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Nostalgia (2018)

Nostalgia (2018)

The film, written by Alex Ross Perry and directed by Mark Pellington, is built around the theme of grief and of value placed on mementos transmitted from generation to generation. It begins with an insurance agent (John Ortiz) visiting an elderly man (Bruce Dern) to appraise the value of some of his possessions. Then the same insurance agent visits a widow (Ellen Burstyn), who lost her house in a fire but managed to salvage a few precious objects, including a baseball signed by Ted Williams.

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