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Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 6
Pub. Date
[2006], 2004.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
Français
Description
The stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his traditionalist father, nor does the dad relate to his son -- a culture clash (and generational clash) that is the spine of their entire trip to Saudi Arabia.
Pub. Date
©2005, ©2002.
Language
Arabic
Description
This film concerns a Palestinian named E.S. (played in utter silence with Keatonesque melancholy by director Suleiman) who observes the petty, hilariously repetitive neighbor-to-neighbor grievances of a community of middle-class Nazarenes. His father drives through the mostly Arab Israeli city, smiling and waving to his neighbors as he curses them under his breath. The Jerusalem dwelling son meets his Ramallah-based lover in an empty lot near an Israeli...
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