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Skies of Lebanon [Opens July 22 in NYC's IFC Center and July 29 in Santa Monica's Laemmle Theaters Monica.] After a talented, Swiss artist (Alba Rohrwacher) takes a job as an au pair in Beirut in the 1950s and quickly marries a charming, ambitious Lebanese astrophysicist (Wajdi Mouawad) whose passion is building a rocket and sending a Lebanese astronaut into space in Chloé Mazlo's creative, arty, original, colorful, factually inspired, visually stunning, touching, well-acted, surreal, 82-minute, 2020 film that mixes live action, stop-motion animation, and paintings, she becomes close to her husband's family (Mariah Tannoury, Hany Tamba, Odette Makhlouf, Jade Breidi, John Chelhot, Greta Zighondi, and Chloé Zighondi) while eventually raising their daughter (Isabelle Zighondi) and then finds their relationship struggling and in turmoil amidst war-torn Lebanon in the late 1970s when civil war breaks out.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Skies of Lebanon on the Internet Movie Database