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Lila Says
Director: Ziad Doueiri Co-producer: John Battsek Drama feature based on the cult best-selling French novel of the same title, LILA SAYS is a modern love story set against the urban decay of Marseilles. A co-production with Marina Gefter of Huit et Demi Productions in Paris, the film was written and directed by Ziad Doueiri (WEST BEIRUT) The film premiered in Toronto 2004, and screened at the London Film Festival in November 2004 and the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. "Douieri's film has an odd innocence, and could almost be described as a multi-cultural teenage Betty Blue. This provocative film - as much about tolerance as sexuality - certainly gets a boost from two impressive young leads, and the stylistic verve Douieri showed in his much-praised debut West Beirut are fully present here. Notable features are a richly wrought score by Nitin Sawnhey, and French cinema's most sexually charged bicycle ride since Jules et Jim." - Jonathan Romney "�The director has an intuitive, buoyant sympathy for young people". - A. O. Scott, The New York Times "Ziad Doueiri's "Lila Says" is a lyrically graceful story of first love�raw, earthy yet tender and perceptive�" - Los Angeles Times "�sultry erotic drama�" - Salon
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