Paradise Now (2005)
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabel, Amer Hiehel
Producer: Hany Abu-Assad
Screenwriter: Bero Beyer
Producer: Amir Harel, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 21, 2006
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Reviews
Abu-Assad does a good job of building tension and showing some of the complexities within Palestinian culture. He has, as they say, put a human face on the Palestinians.
Un film duro, polémico y bien realizado, que promueve el debate sobre un conflicto aún por resolver.
A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable.
While it fails to make a compelling argument for terrorism, it is a compelling story nonetheless.
It's all compelling, and the film boasts an ending that leaves the audience sitting in numbed silence.
For a while as perversely compelling as Spielberg's Munich, the film sadly deflates as a narrative.
Ainda que assuma claramente a defesa da causa palestina, o cineasta deixa clara sua reprovação ao terrorismo.
... it says more about Middle Eastern politics from the Palestinian side than any movie, period.
Paradise Now gets a little frantic and lost near the end, which is infinitely preferable to the bourgeois accessibility of its beginning. I would love for the film to have gone much further, cut deeper.
The film continues to twist and turn until the very end, keeping us guessing as to what the would-be martyrs will do.
[S]tylistically far removed from what we see on the evening news, [it also] allows for a psychological depth that this subject oftentimes sorely lacks.
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