‘Hot Water’ Review: The American Road Movie Tradition Gets a Cross-Cultural Twist

Layal (Lubna Azabal) seems to be on the brink of a nervous breakdown. A college professor of Arabic who just quit smoking, she has no patience, her students’ incompetence infuriates her, she tries to relax while listening to meditation programs in her car, her mother in Beirut has fallen and become bedridden. As if this […]