Wonderfully effective, funny and yet horrific film.
Divine Intervention(يد إلهية)
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France, Morocco, Germany · 2002
1h 32m
Director Elia Suleiman
Starring Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher
Genre Drama, Romance
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Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings. Their daily lives are fundamentally defined by the divisions between them, like the other Palestinians currently under Israeli occupation. A bleak, dark comedy about two lovers in a world and a country that cares nothing for them or their happiness.
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What are critics saying?
Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Antic, puzzling and disturbing film.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
A one-of-a-kind experience, a Molotov cocktail of a seriocomedy.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Suleiman isn't much for words, but when he's ready for action, there's no hiding his anger.
A movie of long, expressive silences, Divine Intervention articulates things that have never been articulated, at least on the screen.
Dallas Observer by Jean Oppenheimer
Sly and corrosively funny political black comedy.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
About the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it treats war as a cosmic joke and its participants as hapless but recognizably human clowns.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A mordant and bleak comedy, almost without dialogue, about Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
The Divine Intervention of the title lies somewhere between hope and fantasy. In a world in which Santa Claus is assaulted in Nazareth, what do you have left?
The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie.
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