- Summary: Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
- Director: Eran Riklis
- Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 13
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Mixed: 7 out of 13
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Negative: 4 out of 13
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75The combination of youthful irreverence and military indoctrination is jarring.
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Sep 27, 201363Riklis isn’t heavy-handed here, and even when the film’s plot grows a little unlikely, its tone is never sappy.
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60Neatly juxtaposes the beauty of the landscape with the enmities it engenders.
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40It's quite a sweet idea, with a liberal attempt at balance, though Palestinian audiences may query the idea of making their half of this equation a child, and Fahed's motivation for defying his elders in quite so disloyal and dangerous a way, is never convincingly explained.
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40The film’s facile message of cross-cultural unity owes more to fairy tale than reality, but the action is slick and the story gripping.
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40The fact that the film’s title is an Arabic word for “olive,” as in holding out said branch to your foes, gives you a sense of what Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree) is going for: a melodrama with a do-we-all-not-bleed? moral.
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12It misfires in tone, depth, and political tact, dumbing down rather than providing new insights into the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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