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The Traveller

2016 · 100 min

A gentle, wry culture-clash comedy that quietly turns into a midlife reckoning, light on its feet but with a melancholy undertow.

Overview
A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • family
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Hadi Ghandour
Written by
Hadi Ghandour
Starring
Rodrigue Sleiman, Mike Zubi, Donia Eden, Romy Melhem, Jean-Claude Tran, Lubna Playoust, Aïda Sabra, Véronique Berthoud
Music
Julian Cassia
Cinematography
Saro Varjabedian
Runtime
100 min
Country
France, Lebanon
Languages
French, Arabic

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