The Color of Olives
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  • Summary: From Mexican director Carolina Rivas and cinematographer Daoud Sarhandi comes this elegant and visually breathtaking new film about the Palestinian experience. The Color of Olives is an artistic and beautifully affecting reflection on the effects of racial segregation, the meaning of borders and the absurdity of war. (Arab Film Distribution)… Expand

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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    80
    Using only natural light, Ms. Rivas and Mr. Sarhandi frame everything with an artistry that belies the difficulty of their working conditions, creating a film as unhurried and dignified as the Amer family itself.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    Mexican helmer Carolina Rivas obviously intends her slow-paced and contemplative doc as a testimony to the indomitability of the human spirit under dire circumstances.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: R. Emmet Sweeney
    50
    The Color of Olives attempts to reach the political through the mundane, documenting blocks of lost time as the family lazes in front of wire fences, but director Carolina Rivas aestheticizes the Amers' plight, using them as actors for her tone poem on displacement.

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  1. Mohammed
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    You don't have to be more than a human being with basic free will and opinion to appreciate this warmly felt film. Personally, it made me wonder why it had to be the Palestinians to suffer all that injustice? I mean, really why? The film, directed by Carolina Rivas, presents an ordinary family in these abnormal times. It lives beside the fence the Israeli emplanted in order to feel more secured. While the reason is understandable, the humilation is not. The need for self protection from the terrorists could be acceptable, but the harsh consequences on families like the family we see in this film is not. While the film makes its point clerarly, letting us concieve the full tragedy of this family, and as it makes some of us, at least, think of similir innocent victims of a world failed times over to do justice, it maintains a poetic beauty. A vivid and tender treatment. The Color of the Olives is an artistic look at a human condition without any other agenda except to present its real life situation with a real life sensitivity. I think, this is the only way any situation, story, cause, case or a mere obeservation should be presented.… Expand

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