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A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya (Elodie Bouchez) lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television . Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier (Jose Maria de Tavira), a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya's overly paranoid conspiracy theories-but nothing in Asya's world is as it seems. Asya's life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that simultaneously arise out of everyday life.
Zeina Durr's atmospheric debut feature, Which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival is an alluring and intelligent look at the way the war on terror seeps into the texture of everyday American life. Gorgeous 16 mm grain imbues the film with an anachronistic feel that interestingly evokes times past. THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! is an exceptional work heralding the arrival of Durr as an exciting new directorial talent.
Asya, an artist in Manhattan, is in the bathroom at a benefit event when she learns that her childhood sweetheart, Faisal, has disappeared. Faisal's fiance, East European model Tatiana, informs her that Faisal's family believes the CIA abducted him. That same night Asya meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student studying law, and a romance blossoms out of a one-night stand.
In an exclusive nightclub, Faisal's cousin Karim tells Asya to be careful as they might all be under government surveillance. Asya visits Faisal's family to get legal advice and is offered some delicious petit fours. Then she goes to see an experimental dance piece with Javier.
One morning, whilst buying supplies in a Chinese grocers, Asya gets a phone call from her Paris-based mother who's concerned that Beirut, where Asya's brother lives, has just been bombed. Asya and Javier go to her cleaning ladies son's police academy graduation party.
Out at a Harlem jazz club after her gallery group show, Asya goes to buy cigarettes with Karim where she learns that the situation in Lebanon has worsened and her brother must wait to be evacuated. Dancing in the jazz club, Asya tries to clear her head and Javier tries to help her. That night they argue.
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