Image Matters
Realizador Rozy Sarkis
Países Lebanon
Duração 51 min
Sinopse
Everyday we are bombarded with images of war in the Middle-East. For the women of one family in Lebanon however, it is the larger than life billboards of perfect women along the main highway that occupy their minds. Marinelle, a popular Lebanese soap-opera actress draws her ideas of ‘beautiful’ from celebrities. Through cosmetic-surgery, she strives to become the best version of herself. Also all her aunts, friends and co-stars have had cosmetic surgery at least once in their lives. Marinelle is now again struggling in a decision to undergo a life-threatening face-lift. If she does not have it, her confidence at work will deteriorate, if she does, she feels may lose her identity forever. An intimate story of one woman reveals how a culture of cosmetic surgery thrives; where the line is thinning between those of us that have had cosmetic surgery and those of us that have not.
Everyday we are bombarded with images of war in the Middle-East. For the women of one family in Lebanon however, it is the larger than life billboards of perfect women along the main highway that occupy their minds. Marinelle, a popular Lebanese soap-opera actress draws her ideas of ‘beautiful’ from celebrities. Through cosmetic-surgery, she strives to become the best version of herself. Also all her aunts, friends and co-stars have had cosmetic surgery at least once in their lives. Marinelle is now again struggling in a decision to undergo a life-threatening face-lift. If she does not have it, her confidence at work will deteriorate, if she does, she feels may lose her identity forever. An intimate story of one woman reveals how a culture of cosmetic surgery thrives; where the line is thinning between those of us that have had cosmetic surgery and those of us that have not.