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| Ziad Doueiri |
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| Born: 1963 |
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Doueiri got his break working on Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs,
and remained assistant cameraman on Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. His
debut as director, West Beirut, was a real breakthrough: an Arab film
with wit, style and energy to burn. Like Tarantino, there was snappy
dialogue in the midst of violence - only here, it was no fantasy gangsta
world, but the harsh reality of the Lebanese civil war, which he lived
through. Steeped in cinema from the French New Wave to Francis Ford
Coppola, Doueiri is one of Arab film's brightest hopes, now coming into
his own, along with talents like Tunisia's Moufida Tlatli.
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