Beirut speaks through its fragments in Do You Love Me

Beirut speaks through its fragments in Do You Love Me

As images of Beirut accumulate in Do You Love Me, they do so without chronology or hierarchy, folding weddings into bombed streets, seaside afternoons into televised air raids, and moments of intimacy into scenes of rupture, until memory itself begins to feel like the organising principle rather than history. What takes shape is not a record of events but an emotional landscape, formed through repetition and return, in which joy, endurance and v…