| Release Date | Feb 03, 2010 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Summary | A powerful crime drama set on the streets of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood--a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians--and told through the eyes of a cross-section of the city's inhabitants: a young Israeli fighting a criminal vendetta against his family, a Palestinian refugee working illegally to finance a life-saving surgery, a Jewish police detective obsessed with finding his missing brother, and an affluent Palestinian dreaming of a future with his Jewish girlfriend. As their stories intersect--and the film's narrative shifts back and forth in time--we witness a dramatic collision of different worlds and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors. (Kino International) |
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 A poignant drama set in the tense multi-ethnic community in Jaffa, Israel, where dreams are regularly shattered by violence, poverty, and religious strife.
Jan 28, 2010
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 More impressive as a formal exercise than as a means to deepen our understanding of the characters or their situations.
Feb 01, 2010
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There are hints at the sort of collective punishment so often rained down by Palestinians and Israelis upon one another, but really there are far broader concerns here in what is, in effect, a drama of divisions
Jan 19, 2010
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The same violent crimes play out again and again from different points of view as confusing, messy, and vivid as real life.
Jan 19, 2010
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As complex as Paul Haggis's film "Crash," this one may be confusing the first time around but affords the viewer an emotional picture of life in one of Israel's toughest neighborhoods.
Nov 19, 2009
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Complex like its nation's own ethnic and cultural stew, this is bracing cinema even while its implications are distressing in the extreme.
Jan 30, 2010
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| Genres | Drama, Foreign Films |
| Stars | Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, Elias Saba |
| Director | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani |
| Writers | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani |
| Studio | Film Forum |
| Review Count | 35 |
| Positive | 34 |
| Negative | 1 |
| Recent | 0 |
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