Solitaire (2017)

7.1/10 • 92 min • Comedy Drama

Overview

Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!

Cast

Julia Kassar

Ali El Khalil

Bassam Kousa

Nadine Khoury

Betty Taoutel

Jaber Jokhadar

Said Serhan

Marwan

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