There were still two Swiss in the world in the 1950s.
The one, cold and mountainous, where Alice lives.
And the one, located at the other end of the Mediterranean, where this young governess dreams of going: Lebanon, then a land of recklessness.
The film begins with volume animations, plasticine characters who move in front of painted sets.
Once in the Middle East, Alice takes human form, that of Alba Rohrwacher, the muse of Italian auteur cinema seen in
Happy as Lazzaro
in 2018.
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With
Sous le ciel d'Alice
, Chloé Mazlo, a 37-year-old Frenchwoman of Lebanese origin, winner in 2015 of the César for best animated short, signs a daring, lively and colorful first film.
He was also selected by the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. A selection unfortunately remained virtual.
In Beirut, in the smoke of the cafes, Alice looks white as porcelain.
She falls in love with the country and Joseph, an astrophysicist in the moon
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