Two grumpy old men weaponize crossword puzzles against dementia and each other.
A former Interior Security Forces General of 80 years old, and a former Army doctor of 84, go every day to the same coffee shop, to sip quietly their espresso, and to make crossword puzzles, to avoid loss of memory, Alzheimer's disease.
Acting
Chahine and Yammine's decades-honed comic timing.
Direction
Hojeij turns a café corner into a whole world.
Writing
Dialogue that stings then warms like bad espresso.
Director
Bahij Hojeij
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Hamra, Beirut, the café serves as living archive of Lebanese intellectual life pre-civil war.
Director Hojeij cast himself as a background customer to observe his leads' natural rhythms without directing.
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