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  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad's timely feature explores love among the ruins of an occupied territory and is the winner of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's 2003 Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking. (Arab Film Distribution)

Directed By: Hany Abu-Assad

Written By: Liana Badr, Ihab Lamey

  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 30 m

Rana's Wedding

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad's timely feature explores love among the ruins of an occupied territory and is the winner of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's 2003 Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking. (Arab Film Distribution)

Directed By: Hany Abu-Assad

Written By: Liana Badr, Ihab Lamey

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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84% Positive
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A bittersweet film that tells the story of Palestinian life as eloquently as anything ever done.
By Jonathan Curiel FULL REVIEW
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Ms. Khoury, often filmed in close-up, gives a deeply sensitive, unsentimental performance, and the feelings that crowd on her face (sometimes more than one at a time) run the gamut from despair to ambivalence to hysterical frustration to tenderness and joy.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
An invitation to see something a little less pretty, and potentially more enduring.
By Janice Page FULL REVIEW
75
Excellent acting, and a plot that combines suspense, whimsy, and political resonance make this Palestinian comedy-drama an unusual treat.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
70
Clara Khoury delivers a performance that is luminous, fierce and intensely focused as the title character of Rana's Wedding.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
63
Strong acting from Khoury saves the weak storyline.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
50
It's tempting to read Abu-Assad's view of his ostentatiously wealthy heroine and her debutante narcissism as satirical of a certain cross-section of modernized Palestinians amid the occupation, but the placid, earnest way her dilemma takes up emotional space in his film suggests half-bakery.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Augustus Film, Palestinian Film Foundation
Release Date Aug 22, 2003
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.ranaswedding.com/
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Awards

Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Marrakech International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Haifa International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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