''A Lost Man'' (french: Un homme perdu, ar, رجل ضائع , Levantine Arabic ''rajolon ḍāˀyeˁ'') is a 2007
Lebanese film by the Lebanese director
Danielle Arbid
Danielle Arbid (born 26 April 1970) is a French filmmaker of Lebanon, Lebanese origin. She has been directing films since 1997.
Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto FF, New York FF, San ...
.
The film premiered on 18 March during the
2007 Cannes Film Festival, in the
Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festiv ...
section. It is possibly the most sexually graphic film ever made by an Arab director.
''Variety'' article
/ref> The film was inspired by the life of the French photographer Antoine D'Agata
Antoine d'Agata (; born 1961) is a French photographer and film director. His work deals with topics that are often considered taboo, such as addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, and prostitution.
D'Agata is a full member of Magnum Photo ...
.
Synopsis
The story is about a French photographer Thomas Koré (Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker.
Career
Poupaud's first appearance was, as a child, in Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film ''City of Pirates''. He met Ruiz through his mother, Chantal Poupau ...
), who is searching for extraordinary experiences. Koré has become so detached from humanity that the only way he can connect with other people is to have—and photograph—bizarre and demeaning sexual encounters with prostitutes. When he meets Fouad Saleh (Alexander Siddig
Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born 21 November 1965) is a Sudanese-born English actor and director known professionally as Siddig El Fadil and subsequently as Alexander Siddig.
Siddig i ...
), a man with memory problems, he realized that Fouad is even more lost than he, and befriends him. Koré then tries to uncover Fouad's history.
References
External links
Official website
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2007 films
2007 comedy-drama films
2000s Arabic-language films
Lebanese comedy-drama films
2007 comedy films
2007 drama films
Films directed by Danielle Arbid
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