The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It has an air of melancholy humor as its characters fumble toward normalcy.
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Netherlands, Palestine, France · 2003
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Starring Areen Omari, Gassan Abbas, George Ibrahim
Genre Drama
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This hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. When a schoolteacher invites Jabir to make a screening in Jerusalem, he becomes determined to make the pilgrimage.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It has an air of melancholy humor as its characters fumble toward normalcy.
Attempts to meld reality and artifice but to uninspiring results.
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Largely sidesteps sentiment in favor of a tentative hopefulness.
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