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DVD ~ Elia Suleiman
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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: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000094P1V
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,529 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 4 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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1 of 5 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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4.0 out of 5 stars Put a balloon in it, 9 Jun 2009
This film is a series of comic vignettes and set piece burlesques, which illustrate
a state of mind and being of Palestinians under occupation. In a ghetto state they
stagnate and turn on each other. A man hoards bottles to throw at the police from his
rooftop. Another man throws bags of rubbish into a neighbours garden only to
complain when it is thrown back. Another man drives through Nazareth waving at
people he passes only to curse under his breath at them. A boy practises with a
football only to have it slashed when it goes on a man's roof. Then there is the
drive-by terrorists who throw a Molotov cocktail into someone's driveway, only
for the victim to put it out immediately with a fire extinguisher, as if it's a common
occurrence. There is no overall narrative thread and the episodes do not flow into each
other. Everything is connected by comedy and silence. Scenes are beautifully set up
and allowed to unwind. A man breaks up a driveway so his neighbour cannot drive up. A blindfolded prisoner in a police van is allowed out to answer questions about directions to the Holy Land. There are many Tatiesque moments in all this. The
director Suleiman, acts as a character, E.S. who lives in Jerusalem and visits his
father, who has had a heart attack. He also visits his Palestinian girlfriend(who lives
in Ramallah) at al- Ram checkpoint parking lot as she can't get through the checkpoint. There are scenes with them holding hands in their parked car and
staring at the checkpoint guards humiliating Palestinian Israelis E.S. blows up a
balloon with an image of a smiling Arafat and lets it go and it confuses the guards
who debate whether to shoot it as it floats over the checkpoint. There are two fantasy
sequences, one where he's driving along and throws a peach stone out of the window
for it to blow up an Israeli tank(a scene shot in France). The second is his girlfriend
who's disappeared to become a ninja- warrior who materializes behind a figure
of an Arab-clad female in full dress to take on and destroy soldiers who are in
target practise. The director himself has a Keaton-like stare as E.S. and is good
in the scene where he drives up to lights adjacent to an Israeli's flying the Jewish
flag and plays I Put a Spell On You and they try to outstare each other, creating
a road block. I think Suleiman has put together a film which is not propagandist
or overtly political( could be watched by Israelis) and using subversive humour
and the idea that love does not obey checkpoints aims for a universalistic image
that all people can recognise. Make love not war. Incidentally, because Palestine
is not a nation, this film was not nominated for an oscar. It won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2002.The best scene for me is when the beautiful
Palestinian woman walks hypnotically through the checkpoint staring at
the soldiers, who put down their guns as she walks through, with the
tower collapsing behind her.I'm not sure the fantasy sequences worked as
they were not in keeping with the rest of the film.
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