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- 2014
- Not Rated
- Adopt Films
- 1 h 38 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Adopt Films
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist—you decide—ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli ...
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Adopt Films
- 1 h 38 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Adopt Films
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist—you decide—ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli ...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
75
82% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
18% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
75
82% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
18% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is political cinema at its best; intelligent, thought-provoking and utterly absorbing. Bakri is a star in the making and delivers an electrifying performance.
Omar is a thriller and a romance, with unabashedly melodramatic elements (there's even a love triangle), all of which are brought into stark relief by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What happens when Omar is outside the prison walls, and how his world and his relationships are reshaped by the realities of broken trust and betrayal, make for gripping and heartbreaking watching.
A cast of mostly first-time actors shade the film with a touching realism. Bakri offers a masterful performance, portraying Omar as kind and easygoing while also tamping down those traits in an atmosphere of suspicion and betrayal.
Omar eventually becomes a sun-scorched neo-noir — and the fade-out is an unforgettable jolter.
The movie grips us partly because Bakri’s performance is alternately casual and calculated.
the movie comes perilously close to implicitly justifying the killing that sparked the plot - a killing, by the way, that is close to senseless.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Dubai International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations