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Mars at Sunrise

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Canada, Palestine, United States · 2014
1h 15m
Director Jessica Habie
Starring Ali Soliman, Guy Elhanan, Haale Gafori, Maisam Masri
Genre Drama

A conflict between a Palestinian artist and an Israeli soldier is told in a surrealist style.

Stream Mars at Sunrise

What are people saying?

What are critics saying?

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The Dissolve by Chris Klimek

Habie’s fractured narrative style—particularly her arbitrary shifts from Khaled’s perspective to Eyal’s to (apparently) third-person reality—stymies the accumulation of any dramatic momentum from scene to scene.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

This setup is simple, but what follows is less so: an impressionistic battle between imagination and brute force that too often veers from enlightening to exasperating.

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Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Suliman (“Paradise Now,” “The Attack”) dominates the screen as Khaled, utterly compelling in and out of jail, his magnificent perf tying up cinematic loose ends.

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Village Voice by Zachary Wigon

Using its narrative as a launching pad for abstract visuals, the picture reminds viewers that even the most striking images demand context to create anything like drama.