Sabah is everywhere. In our collective memory of course, but also on the walls of Beirut, on stamps, on bags, and now in an upbeat new ad.
Funny, joyful and colorful, the new Café Super Brasil ad is not only a great tribute to our beloved Sabbouha, but it’s actually a very welcome breath of fresh air in these very depressing times.
The ad industry loves its pompous and cheap poetry. It uses it anywhere it can. Almost every product is an excuse to fill our ears with some deep voice reciting silly rhymes and trying to sell us banks, water, alcohol or housing projects. When it doesn’t do that, it features skinny Millennials in loose t-shirts behaving like morons.
But today, thanks to ad agency Drive-Densu Beirut and director Chadi Younes, we can escape for a minute or so from pretentious advertising and the gloom of Lebanese daily life into a simpler world full of color, songs and joy. A “cliché Lebanon” perhaps, but a Lebanon that represents the most endearing part of us: our innocence.
"A tribute to Sabah and the Lebanese collective culture is very relevant to Café Super Brasil which is one of the oldest and most iconic brand of coffee in Lebanon, says executive creative director, Alain Shoucair. It all started with the insight of anticipating and sheering a cup of coffee, everything else came naturally and the film’s joyful treatment quickly became the obvious thing to do!”