OK, Enough, Goodbye (Tayeb, Khalas, Yalla) - Trailer

Set in somnolent, conservative and austere Tripoli, the provincial capital of north Lebanon, OK, Enough, Goodbye is a caustic twist on the delayed coming-of-age of a man pushing 40, who lives with his elderly mother and has consciously centered his life on caring for her.
With the excuse of her being completely dependent on him -- and in spite of her repeated objections -- he has refrained from making a life for himself. One day, without warning, she moves to Beirut. Suddenly, this co-dependent has to construct daily routines, a social universe, nurse his loneliness and find happiness -- all on his own.

Elegantly paced and beautifully filmed, Rania Attiah and Daniel Garcia's debut narrative feature is an uncanny, incisive but muted critical deconstruction of manhood. The man, once all too comfortable in his self-imposed bondage to his elderly mother, now negotiates his new-found freedom with a great deal of reticence. He discovers, for the first time, the city in which he has lived all his life, but is unable to establish new relationships with people. He even employs an Ethiopian woman as a housekeeper, yet fails to find a means to communicate with her. She leaves him as well.
Ok, Enough, Goodbye is a graceful meditation on inertia, loneliness and cowardice, and the sinister hold of conservatism on the human soul.

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