The Syrian Bride

Name: The Syrian Bride
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 16, 2005
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 70

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Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: November 16, 2005

Summary: Directed with equal parts humor and humanity by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride is set on the sun-baked border between Israel and Syria, a no man’s land that the eponymous bride must cross in order to meet her anxious groom. (Film Forum)

Director: Eran Riklis

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 97 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

There is, however, considerable humor to what might have been an exceedingly grim film, and most of it comes courtesy of Mona's slippery brother, Marwan (Ashraf Barhoum). Read full review

David Ansen

The Syrian Bride would be an out-and-out comedy were it set anywhere but in the Middle East. Read full review

Tim Grierson

By crafting its message in mostly understated strokes, The Syrian Bride touches your heart, which you might not even fully realize until its deft, wordless final moments sweep by you. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

By focusing on one family's dilemma, the movie brings home the messy Middle Eastern situation in a way easier to relate to than the headlines and opinion pieces. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The film uses the situation to evoke a sense of the absurd, sometimes with dry, deadpan humor. Read full review

Desson Thomson

On one hand, the movie is guilty of schematic arrangement...But at the same time, Israeli producer-director-writer Eran Riklis and Palestinian co-writer Suha Arraf use the device to reveal touching human complexity. Read full review

Phil Hall

A strangely inert affair. The stories devolve into one-dimensional squabbling and too many loose threads flap around the edges. Read full review

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BenK.

Jan 30, 2006

A flim that exists at the intersection of family dynamics and governmental meddling. Mona, the title character, is an Israeli citizen from the Golan Heights who is due to marry a Syrian television star, whom she has never met, in Damascus. Because Syria and Israel do not have diplomatic A flim that exists at the intersection of family dynamics and governmental meddling. Mona, the title character, is an Israeli citizen from the Golan Heights who is due to marry a Syrian television star, whom she has never met, in Damascus. Because Syria and Israel do not have diplomatic relations once she marries she will not be allowed back into Israel. So on top of the apprehension of marrying a person you've never met is the reality of ones life being altered, both as a married person and as an exile. (In reality they may be the same thing.) The film is much more vibrant than my dour description of it. It's an entertaining and illumnitating film from a region that is producing some excellent movies.… Expand

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HannC.

Jan 23, 2006

knowing the Jewish director, cameraman plus Palestinian screenplay, and majorly Arab casts, you will know it's not that hard to work and live together... although the plots are evolved with tiny fragments of lives we took it for granted, andyet, the message has been heard----no matter knowing the Jewish director, cameraman plus Palestinian screenplay, and majorly Arab casts, you will know it's not that hard to work and live together... although the plots are evolved with tiny fragments of lives we took it for granted, andyet, the message has been heard----no matter which side are you in, those people's life and lives and a part of it !!!! Thanks to Hiam Abbass's perfect portrait of a tough and mediating central role, though it not her peak yet, consider two other nearly perfect performance in "Sating Rouge"(by Raja Amari, 2002) and "Nadia et Sarra"(by Moufida Tlatli,2004 ) on her belt, you will know the drill.… Expand

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nutterjr

Dec 12, 2010

Not much of a political statement and not much of a drama either. I did not connect to the main characters and after a while all I wanted to do was fast forward to the end. Solid performances by the whole cast did not save the film from mediocracy.

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