4.5 - Addendum

So as a supplement to the most recent installment...may i present Installment 4.5 (apologies BSG).

Taxi Ballad: A Few Frames

(Click on the picture to get the big version)

It's about a Lebanese Taxi driver, Yousef, who meets an American woman, Jordan, living in Beirut.

However Yousef keeps getting himself into trouble. He's rather antagonistic in the first half of the movie and gets into arguments with people such as this guy.

He does have a vivid imagination, however, recalling stories from his youth. Such as the theft of a car by this guy:

Beirut is quite photogenic.

Our taxi driver flashes back to his youth, recalling how he wanted to be a singer. His mother and aunt find him spellbinding, but he's wonderfully awful in actuality.


The young Yousef cheers on his idol in an arm wrestling match.


Grown up Yousef even goes so far as to try a pseudo yoga class to be around Jordan.


Some bonding at the dance club.


There's also the matter of the ex-girlfriend. She dumps him early on, realizing he's not going anywhere she wants to be.


But there's more American-Lebanese bonding at dinner one night.

So - there you go. Just a few examples of what it is i'm actually here to do.

Next up (I promise): Visitors to Lebanon