User Rating
Directors
Tarzan Nasser,
Arab Nasser
Cast
Hiam Abbass,
Salim Dau,
Maisa Abd Elhadi,
George Iskandar,
Manal Awad,
Hitham Al Omai
Genre
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance
Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, he suspects that this discovery will change his life forever. And indeed, as his confidence starts to grow, unforeseen consequences ensue.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz
With one foot in lighthearted romantic comedy and another in also-light political commentary, Gaza Mon Amour never takes a wrong step, exactly, but also feels ambivalent about its final destination. And if that tortured metaphor doesn’t work for you, then the essence of the film, directed by twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, might feel just as wobbly.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Low-key and likable, the Nassers’ Gaza Mon Amour is a movie with no use for sentimentality but in which the timing of a simple kindness, a nervous smile or a cathartic laugh means everything. Which it often can.
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