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Intervention divine
A film that defies easy and neat description. It is Palestinian (the director, Elia Sulieman lives in Jerusalem, his mother in Nazareth). It is critical of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians even though Israeli actors have roles in it (as Israeli police). It is mainly droll but often very funny. And it is absurd - in the sense that (...) -
Ararat
A master-work from Canadian Atom Egoyan, a culmination of a development from small-budget features to mature works. Here, Mt Ararat becomes a location and a symbol for the Armenian heritage of so many Canadians including Egoyan and his wife Arsinee Khanjian. Egoyan works on many satisfying levels here : a narrative about a family where the (...) -
Le sourire de ma mère
Most film directors when asked about religion say that they are not religious (by which they mean church-affiliated) but declare that they are spiritual. This is the case here. For an Italian to say that they are not religious means looking at the Catholic church with a quizzical and questioning eye and finding it wanting while offering an (...) -
Kedma
At first, we might be a little detached as we slowly gaze at a group of huddled migrants on the ship Kedma, making for Palestine in May 1948. We observe rather than empathise. This continues when they land on the beaches and are pursued by half-hearted British troops. As they walk their way to a kibbutz, we get to know them a little better. (...) -
Hollywood ending
Listening to Woody Allen, we realise that Hollywood is not his favourite place : there movies are ’conceived in venality’. It sounds as if he prefers Hollywood to end. However, his title is a poke at the happily contrived ’Hollywood ending’, where he, as a temperamental and hypochondriac director goes off to France where they have discovered (...)