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Divine Intervention (2003)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, Naeif Daher
Screenwriter: Elia Suleiman
Producer: Humbert Balsan, Avi Kleinberger, Joachim Ortmanns, Babette Schroder, Elia Suleiman
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 7, 2005
DVD Features:
- Region (unknown)
- Keep Case
- Widescreen 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital - Arabic
- Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
- Original Trailer
- Director's Interview
Reviews
The movie is so busy being clever, in ways that don't fit with each other, that it is unable to communicate.
Unfortunately the gags here vary enormously in their effectiveness.
Elia Suleiman is a talented man who made a striking film to voice the sorrows of his people and there are sorrows to be lamented, but his film is drawn from an ugliness and intellectual dishonesty that besmirches any lesson that could possibly be extracte
A mordantly amusing black comedy about life among the Arab citizens of Israel.
Life in the Arab-Israeli region has a random and arbitrary unintelligibility, if this surreal stylization validly reflects it. But, validity comes into question.
...a non-narrative film that mixes agitprop with Pythonesque silliness and an almost stately, rueful kind of slapstick that recalls Buster Keaton in tone if not physicality.
El director hilvana sensaciones, alegorías, representaciones más bien absurdas, e inspiradas en el cine mudo o la comedia física de Buster Keaton o Jacques Tati.
Suleiman works in slow, poetic scenes that build to hilarious climaxes.
Provocative yet self-reflective, hilarious yet heartbreaking chronicle of love and pain.
As the film progresses, it becomes considerably more focused . . . even though it doesn't always make sense.
Some of Suleiman's symbols are maddeningly obtuse, while others -- like the final shot of a pressure cooker -- are ridiculously obvious.
From the first scenes -- a sorry-looking Santa huffing and puffing his way up a hill to flee a gang of Palestinian youths -- Divine Intervention intercedes to offer the most unexpected of film experiences.
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