Grandma, a Thousand Times

Name: Grandma, a Thousand Times
Genre: Biography, Music, Family, Documentary
Released: December 9, 2011
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 77

2011

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Paladin | Release Date: December 9, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Grandma, A Thousand Times is a documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises concocted by her grandson to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old BeirutiGrandma, A Thousand Times is a documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises concocted by her grandson to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. She’s been gripped as of late by the silence of her once-buzzing household where she raised children and grandchildren. Resigned to Argileh smoking and day-long coffee drinking on a now-empty balcony, Teta now invokes the deepest memories of her violinist husband who died twenty years ago. She claims a preparedness to re-unite with him. (Veritas Films)… Expand

Director: Mahmoud Kaabour

Genre(s): Biography, Music, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 50 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 11, 2012

Warmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, Grandma, a Thousand Times gains lightness from Teta's tart observations. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Feb 11, 2012

Director Mahmoud Kaabour is Fatima's grandson, and she instantly seizes on--lightly, in her way--the guilt and panic that's inspired him to make this film.

Aaron Hillis

Feb 11, 2012

She might not be our kin, but filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour's anecdotal, warm-humored tribute to his grandmother - and, to a limited extent, to her cultural heritage - taps into the universal desire to hang onto loved ones in their waning years. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Feb 11, 2012

A delightfully inventive valentine to his 83-year-old Lebanese grandmother, Mahmoud Kaabour's Grandma, a Thousand Times tenderly deconstructs the family-portrait genre, investing all manner of postmodernist distancing devices with emotional resonance. Read full review

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