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: Koch Lorber Films
: 90 min.
: Arabic
: English
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| Quirky and playful
by MbDooley
August 25, 2006 - 10:02 PM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| If you know anything about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, this is a very funny meditation on life in the Occupied Territories. Some of the ironies are bitter but it is an amazing sign of how hope springs eternal that the director could frame the bitterness in the Occupied Territories in such a way as to turn it into absurdity & laughter. Also teases how Arabs screw each other over in their desperation. Fabulous music as well. |
| This One NEEDS an Intervention
by talltale
July 26, 2005 - 6:04 AM PDT
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We watched DIVINE INTERVENTION for over an hour (it supposedly lasts only 90 minutes) without ever finding a point of entry. Things happen (and happen and happen) for no discernable reason until you could run screaming from the room, except that you're far too enervated by now to get up off your chair, sofa or bed. The movie is very nearly dialog-free, and initially many of the characters are so angry and hostile that you suspect writer/director Elia Suleiman is trying to show us the Israeli-induced Palestinian persona. But so what?
I rarely stop watching any movie until the bitter end, but with this--one of the weakest films I have ever seen--enough was too much. Maybe you have to live in Palestine to appreciate it. The opening with the man in the Santa suit does grab you (ditto the bit with the balloon), but as with all else here, thje viewer is left to wander, compass-free. Fantasy mixes with reality to produce... nothing. Perhaps the Israeli/Palestinian situation IS hopeless (this movie certainly is), but if that's its point, it ain't enough. There is no--never has been--divine intervention; time to take responsibility upon ourselves. Maybe THAT'S this writer/director's point? But what a "withholding" moviemaker he is. Sometimes, Mr. Suleiman, less is simply less. |
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