A Frown Gone Mad

Lebanon2024documentary71'Body

The closer the war, the busier the business – these are the observations of the head of a Beirut beauty salon specialising in facial injections using a variety of substances. The target group includes women, although sometimes there are men, too, and the camera observes their voluntary torture without judging this pursuit of youth and beauty. Without any anaesthesia, operating mainly with close-ups, it shows aesthetic medicine procedures which are performed in spite of exploding bombs, uncertain times and completely different wounds, both physical and psychological.