Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
Salwa Nakkara
- Adiaas Adia
- (as Salvia Nakkara)
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, Ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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A politic-poetic film
Divine intervention breaks the rules in many ways, only in order to make an incredibly strong political statement. It breaks the conventions imparted by the establishment of Hollywood and his lambs all around the world (just here, in Cordoba, the second city of Argentina, Hoyts Cinemas has inverted 24 million dollars). The convention of how a third world film has to be. The convention that says that third world films must be compromised films with the social reality in a way that is appealing for a first world "qualite" audience. It also breaks the rules imparted by the filmmakers of the same group of countries that Elia Suleiman about how a compromised director and his works should be. Besides, the film appropiates the resources of the powerful (the magnificent scene with the Ninja Fighter girl) to subvert, trough parody.
By the way, dont miss the Buster Keaton hommage by Suleiman himself.
By the way, dont miss the Buster Keaton hommage by Suleiman himself.
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- Leandro_cba
- Feb 25, 2004
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