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Nadine Labaki's beautifully rendered film, released in 2007, centers around 4 women who are just trying to live their lives as best they can in Lebanon. But the audience won't be spoon fed the Western (American) mass media visual tropes of a war-torn hellhole, populated by Middle Eastern women suffering under oppressive male dominance and control. Though Ms. Labaki doesn't exclude the fact that women aren't exactly free here, either. As when her character's movements are restricted by hotel employees due to
