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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?
Divine Intervention (يد إلهية)
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- France,
- Morocco,
- Germany,
- Palestine
- 2002
- · 92m
Director
Elia Suleiman
Cast
Elia Suleiman,
Manal Khader,
George Ibrahim,
Amer Daher,
Jamel Daher,
Lufuf Nuweiser
Genre
Drama,
Romance
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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88
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.
80
Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Antic, puzzling and disturbing film.
80
Film Threat
Wonderfully effective, funny and yet horrific film.
80
Dallas Observer by Jean Oppenheimer
Sly and corrosively funny political black comedy.
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
A one-of-a-kind experience, a Molotov cocktail of a seriocomedy.
80
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
A movie of long, expressive silences, Divine Intervention articulates things that have never been articulated, at least on the screen.
75
Boston Globe by Ty Burr
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.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A mordant and bleak comedy, almost without dialogue, about Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
63
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.
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