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Divine Intervention [2002] [DVD]

DVD ~ Elia Suleiman
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher
  • Directors: Elia Suleiman
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Arabic, Hebrew
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 26 May 2003
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000094P1V
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,791 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Packed with witty visual gags, comic vignettes and moments of spectacular fantasy, Divine Intervention portrays the mood of the escalating conflict in the Middle East with wicked and subversive humour. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman himself plays the central character who cares for his ailing father in Jerusalem whilst conducting an affair with a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah. Barred from moving between the two cities, the lovers are forced to share their intimate moments in the shadow of an Israeli army checkpoint, from where they observe the daily feuds between the troops and civilians. Recalling the comic genius of Jacques Tati and deadpan delivery of Buster Keaton, Suleiman's bravaura film is a passionate and surreal depiction of the political and human situation in the occupied territories.


Special Features

Wide Screen
Arabic
Hebrew
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 Arabic Hebrew
Dolby Digital 2.0
Theatrical Trailer
Elia Suleiman Interview
Director Biography And Filmography
English
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Less than divine, 6 May 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Divine Intervention may have had them rolling in the aisles in Tel Aviv, but it doesn't travel well. Which is a shame, because the central premise - a pair of Palestinians who aren't allowed to travel into each others' cities meet silently in cars at the Ramallah checkpoint, watching the inane indignities the bored soldiers visit on the traffic - has so much more potential than the film ever realizes. Interspersed throughout these rendezvous are a series of mostly silent vignettes about petty and major conflicts between neighbors, generally unified by petty intolerance and a lack of communication, giving a wider state of the union picture. Unfortunately, few of them are effective and the film feels like a promising short that has been unsuccessfully padded out to feature length. The blank performances, particularly from director Elia Suleiman, don't help. There are a couple of good moments (especially a policeman getting a bound and blindfolded terrorist out of the back of his van to give directions to the Holy Sepulchre to a passing tourist) but at times this isn't really a movie, it's just footage. Still, the synchronized shooting is fun.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great, slightly surreal, film, 30 Aug 2007
By T. Brown (England) - See all my reviews
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I don't agree with the first review. It's not a particularly funny - belly-laugh - kind of film, but it's a great, slightly surreal exploration of life in the occupied Palestinian territories. It's quite static. And it's true that it's largely a series of vignettes (some quite bizarre) stuck together, but that's a conceit of the film - that nothing really happens, that peoples' lives are on hold. The soundtrack is, in my opinion, truly fantastic - a mix of some great music from middle-eastern musicians from the ages, including some great re-workings of tangos, blues and the like. You may not want to spend £20 on this film on the off-chance, but I think it deserves 4 stars and is worth seeing if you get the chance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More power than polemic, 8 Sep 2009
By MideastMC (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) - See all my reviews
I saw Divine Intervention in a small cinema on a weekday afternoon when it first came out, and emerged blinking into the daylight with a slightly different view of the world.

The mundane claustrophobia of oppression is recreated brilliantly by Elia Suleiman, whose almost complete rejection of traditional plot poignantly reflects the inertia of those who grow to accept humiliation and bullying.

However, it is not a bleak movie. Accompanied by an exceptional soundtrack, the film is punctuated with surrealist fantasy scenes in which the seemingly irresistible power structures are completely turned on their head by the omnipotent imagination of the physically powerless.

I learned anew that oppression is rarely considered newsworthy because it consists of events that do not matter to the powerful. But I took another point: that through imagination we can genuinely resist the fatalistic temptation that reinforces power. That imagination is the starting point of resistance.
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