LOUXOR / LUXOR (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
LOUXOR / LUXOR
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Director
Zeina Dura
Music
composed by Nascuy Linares
Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd
Selection Sundance
When British aid worker Hana returns to th ancient city of Luxor,
she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she
wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices
of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
The
unsettling darkness of our times made me want to write this story set in a
place which is a monument to past civilisations whose central beliefs, temples
and obsession with the afterlife, were all rooted deeply in the idea of light
overcoming darkness. I then started to think about a time when things seemed
simpler and I questioned whether that was because of one’s youth/naïveté or
because the world was in a place that seemed more hopeful, moving in a
direction that was more just. For me, that period when things seemed simpler
was in my early twenties. Then I began to think about the idea of meeting
someone twenty years later who you were once close to, in love with, and
hopeful with, and it seemed like it would be a good way to explore this theme.
That
way you would be able to directly see this passing of time and where it has
brought you or what choices you made and how they shaped your life. I sense
(and I’m sure most people do) a great confusion and a lot of fear with the rise
of the far right, the questions that are raised by our inability to control or
understand where technology is taking us like the internet, questions about
controlling it and censorship, and the instability of division and war. Hana is
a character who has put herself at the forefront of the instability by working
as a surgeon at a clinic on the Syrian border. She is exhausted after her post,
the struggle between life and death that she saw on a daily basis has taken its
toll. The pain that she carries after witnessing these atrocities, first hand,
weighs her down and of course makes her ask a lot of existential questions. She
is also a woman in her early forties and her own window to be a mother is
closing. Luxor is a city of archeology. The excavation of the ancient sites is
so similar to psychoanalysis and works in a very visual way, the digging up,
the excavation.
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