Suleiman’s strong debut has everything that we have come to know about his vignette storytelling style, which houses a mildly humorous if sometimes wistful take on the loss of Arab identity in Israel.
At times jaw-droppingly hilarious, Elia Suleiman’s absurdist work here rightfully makes light of the fractured Israeli-Palestinian relations through a series of increasingly outlandish scenarios.
Continue reading →This droll, sometimes utterly amusing comedy of sight gags, makes certain sharp socio-political observations, but is ultimately too slight and inconsistent a film to really work.
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