• Director(s):

    COMBROUX (PIERRE)

  • Producer(s):

    COUP D'OEIL, ZWEITES DEUTSCHES FERNSEHEN, ARTE DEUTSCHLAND TV GMBH, NRJ

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Through the prism of female beauty, this episode reveals a complex society in which, to a greater extent than elsewhere, people exist via and for the way they are viewed.

 
Beirut is a capital that lies at a crossroads and an intersection of influences between East and West, where beauty occupies a major position in every act of daily life.
In this city, which has long been referred to as the “Paris of the Middle East” and which bears the omnipresent and palpable scars of nearly two decades of war, Lebanese women have always continued to assume their reputation as the Middle East’s most beautiful women.
 
These women, who cultivate glamour, endeavour to please, even just on a trip to the supermarket. They know they will be judged on their appearance, because being beautiful in Lebanon means making one’s mark, and being looked at and listened to with greater attention.
 
This episode highlights those women who skilfully come to a compromise with the rules of their society and its constraints, whilst at the same time gaining emancipation over the archaisms that weigh on them. Beauty and seduction are assets for reinventing a new relationship to the world and to men, and for asserting their position in society.