- Category: Video » World Cinema » Foreign Films, General
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 741952307594
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107061919
- Studio: KOCH Entertainment Distribution
- Release Date: July 12, 2005
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #21725 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #521 in World Cinema (See Top 100 World Cinema Bestsellers)
- #43 in Foreign Films, General (See Top 100 Foreign Films, General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Divine Intervention" starring Elia Suleiman to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Divine Intervention"Browse more products related to "Elia Suleiman, Emma Boltanski and Elia Suleiman"ReviewNew York Times, 01/17/2003, p.E13, "...There is an oblique, elegant sense of structure here. The interlocking series of setups, punch lines and non sequiturs add up to something touching, provocative and wonderfully strange..." Entertainment Weekly, 03/21/2003, p.129, "...Suleiman's best moments, like Godard's, come hurtling out at you like satirical shrapnel..." Chicago Sun-Times, 04/25/2003, p.37, "...The film has been compared to the comedies of Jacques Tati, in which everyday actions build to an unexpected comic revelation..." Uncut, 02/01/2003, p.104, "[S]atisfying, thought-provoking..." Release NoteDVD Features: Product NotesDIVINE INTERVENTION writer-director Elia Suleiman has been compared to Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin, presumably because he has Allen's intelligent, self-deprecating humor and Chaplin's gift for silent comedy. DIVINE INTERVENTION is not a silent film, but an intensely quiet comedy about daily life in the West Bank and Israel. Suleiman provides a series of not-altogether-related vignettes of people choked with boredom and drained of compassion, such as an angry mob of adolescents stabbing Santa Claus, or the neighbor who throws garbage onto the property next door (and complains when its thrown back), or checkpoint soldiers who sing and dance, and look menacing doing so. Though there is no distinct protagonist in this atypical satire, the filmmaker plays himself returning to Nazareth to help his ailing, hospitalized father (Nayef Fahoum Daher). Between visits to the hospital, where patients chain smoke in the halls outside their rooms, Suleiman falls for a West Bank woman (Manal Khader). Restrictions force them to carry out their relationship with only some hand-holding in the parking lot of the Israeli checkpoint between their two cities. If You Enjoy "Divine Intervention (DVD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Divine Intervention (DVD)"There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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