Capernaum (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 20 Sep 2018
• Country: Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, United Kingdom
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 35 wins & 53 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8267604/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/capernaum
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/capernaum
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Arabic, Amharic
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama
• Runtime: 126 min
• Writer: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Keserwany
• Director: Nadine Labaki
• Cast: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
• Keywords: child abuse, poverty, refugee, lawsuit, undocumented immigrant,

	8.4/10
	75/100
	90% – Critics
	93% – Audience

Capernaum Storyline

With his family grappling with extreme poverty, forever indebted to their ruthless landlord, the sad twelve-year-old boy, Zain, is forced to fend for himself in the squalid and overcrowded slums of Beirut. Unable to save his eleven-year-old sister, Sahar, from an uneasy arrangement, Zain will soon find himself all alone in a faceless city, ending up at a small amusement park to befriend another lost soul: the Ethiopian cleaner and mother of one, Rahil. But, in this grim and hostile world, there is no room for dreamers–and as a horrifying discovery is the last straw–a rabid desire for retribution possesses Zain and his blood-thirsty knife demands justice. Who is to blame when love becomes hate, and life turns into an unendurable torment?

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Capernaum Movie Reviews

Well made but very difficult to watch….and not a film for everyone.

“Capernaum” is a very unpleasant film that deals with very unpleasant situations and people. Because of that, it’s not a film for kids to watch and I don’t recommend anyone suffering from depression watch the movie….it’s very hard to take and is brutal in its realism.

The film is about a 12 year-old named Zain who lives in Lebanon and who physically looks like a 9 or 10 year-old…possibly because of malnutrition. The film begins with the boy in prison for stabbing someone and his parents have been called back to court because the boy is now suing them for bringing him life. The film then is a series of flashbacks which show how neglected the boy was. It became so bad that eventually he is taken in by an illegal alien and he takes care of her baby while she goes out looking for any work. Later, when she disappears, Zain continues caring for the baby and trying to work at the same time. It’s a miserable existence and you know eventually it will end in violence.

This film was made with a minimum of dialog and a plot that is hard to see without the story tearing at your heart. It’s one of the more unpleasant movies I’ve seen in some time and implies many things that aren’t overtly stated, such as pedophilia and other ghastly crimes. Hard to take…so much so that although it’s an excellent character study, it’s the sort of film few would really want to watch in the first place.

unrelenting, raw

In Beirut, Zain El Hajj is a 12 year old boy, or 13 at the most. No one knows for sure. He has been sentence to a 5 year prison term for a stabbing. He hates his life and wishes to sue his parents for being born. The movie follows Zain in the months before his arrest. He’s a hustler, making money any way possible, for the family. Life is hard and he runs away.

This movie is visceral giving a sense of life from the street level or from the gutter. It is unrelenting which can get tough. Some viewers can break under the deluge of indignities. It is a hammer that does not stop. It is raw and unforgiving. It can be tiring but worth the watch.