Sofia blacklisted in Lebanon

[Midnight Cowboy]

Since Sofia left Beirut for Cairo, she resumed her interviews, the last one in a magazine called KALAM EL NASS, declaring proudly that she had a role with Sophia Loren in a movie called SOLEIL shot in Marrakech in 1997.
By curiosity, I went to my DVD shop to rent this movie. After checking his computer, the guy told me that the movie was blacklisted in Lebanon… !!!
What a pity !

[Tfouh...]

A film is usualy forbiden in Lebanon and generally in all arab countries when it is :

1- Pornographic
2- Anti religious
3 - Jewish propaganda
4- Anti arab

I did not see the movie SOLEIL but for sure it complies with one of the above criteria

[Negib]

It's a film about Jews
As far as I remember, Sofia's former manager warned her several times NOT TO TALK about this movie

[*S*C*O*R*P*I*O*]

negib said:

It's a film about Jews
As far as I remember, Sofia's former manager warned her several times NOT TO TALK about this movie

PURE IMAGINATION GUYS. ;D
PROOVE IT FIRST AND THEN TALK ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
HER PARENTS WILL NEVER LET SOFIA PLAY IN A JEWISH MOVIE
AND IF IT'S TRUE SOFIA WOULD HAVE NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT IN HER INTERVIEWS
IT'S BULLSHIT !
TRY SOMETHING ELSE

[Ziad iz ze bezt]

OUPS ! BIG mistake Scorpio. This is the subject of the movie SOLEIL in which Sofia MArikh proudly said she acted :

Titine Levy, portrayed by Sophia Loren in Roger Hanin's Soleil, is an impoverished Jewish mother, trying to raise her children in Vichy-dominated French Algeria during World War II. Her husband, working with false identity papers in France, sends her money whenever he can, but she must sell off her furniture, then resort to borrowing, cheating, even stealing, to feed her family in a society where Jews were fired from post office jobs like the one she held. Mme. Levy is neither saint nor the "woman of valor" praised by our Jewish tradition; but there is no doubting, not even for a moment, that she has managed to feed her family in adverse conditions and has kept them together.
Besides being a story of life in times of privation, the French-language, English-subtitled Soleil (Sun) also is a charming coming-of-age story in which we see 13-year-old Meyer Levy (portrayed by Nicolas Olczyk) play street hockey; get arrested for painting communist slogans on a wall; faint the first time he kisses a girl; visit his first prostitute; and get drunk and silly with a friend shortly after being fired by an anti-Semite from a job at the fishmonger's.
The film also hints at the complex relationship between Jews and Arabs in colonial Algeria. The Jews were higher up the social rung; but there were some true friendships between the two peoples.

[(*(*in3am*)*)]

"Soleil" will open the Feb. 16-25 San Diego Jewish Film Festival when it is aired at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres. For ticket information, phone the Lawrence Family JCC at [phone].

[ramona]

I found this add on the Net.
GREAT !

[jessy212]

J'ai vu le film SOLEIL a Paris il y a quelques annees.
Tout d'abord, Sofia ne joue pas un role important, on la voit tres peu. Elle est juste une figurante parmi tant d'autres.
Ensuite, c'est vrai que c'est un film qui traite sur les Juifs d'Algerie. Mais au Maroc, a cette epoque ce n'etait pas tabou de tourner des films avec des juifs. Maintenant c'est peut-etre different, on fait de plus en plus attention.
Ce n'est pas tres malin de la part de Sofia de parler de ce film, surtout qu'elle vit et travaille dans des pays arabes ennemis d'Israel et sans doute que ca lui portera prejudice quand les journalistes arabes sauront qu'elle a tourner dans ce film!
Elle doi faire attention Sofia a ce qu'elle dit devant la presse

[Frida al Masriyya]

[marina]

This girl fears neither God nor manNo wonder she was the lover of Michel Fadel
She is of no religious faith