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The Band's Visit is both a clever, subtle slice-of-life comedy, and poignant cross-cultural exploration.
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What matters is the sense of exhilaration you take away with you. Jul 10, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What matters is the sense of exhilaration you take away with you.
Sandra Hall
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny. Apr 13, 2008 | Full Review…
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny.
Jonathan F. Richards
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely. Apr 11, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely.
Roger Moore
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect. Mar 14, 2008 | Full Review…
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over. Mar 14, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.
Ty Burr
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us. Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us.
Roger Ebert
Even without the coveted Oscar pedigree, this modest comedy has to be the most delightful and enjoyable movie now playing in local theaters. Feb 12, 2018 | Full Review…
Even without the coveted Oscar pedigree, this modest comedy has to be the most delightful and enjoyable movie now playing in local theaters.
Dan DiNicola
It's not going to solve any problems in the Middle East, and it doesn't attempt to, either. It's just a quiet story about the uncomfortable charm of coerced hospitality. Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
It's not going to solve any problems in the Middle East, and it doesn't attempt to, either. It's just a quiet story about the uncomfortable charm of coerced hospitality.
Annie Wagner
It's both quintessentially Israeli and an enjoyable experience that will touch audiences no matter what their background. Mar 1, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's both quintessentially Israeli and an enjoyable experience that will touch audiences no matter what their background.
Hannah Brown
[Writer/director Eran] Kolirin finds bittersweet humor in the comedy of their melancholy lives and fumbling efforts at communication and common ground Aug 3, 2011 | Full Review…
[Writer/director Eran] Kolirin finds bittersweet humor in the comedy of their melancholy lives and fumbling efforts at communication and common ground
Sean Axmaker
Filmmaker Kolirin shows Israelis what they've been missing, and the rest of us what the Middle East could be, in the gentle, human-scale antics of the confused Egyptian band. Apr 28, 2011 | Full Review…
Filmmaker Kolirin shows Israelis what they've been missing, and the rest of us what the Middle East could be, in the gentle, human-scale antics of the confused Egyptian band.
Kelly Vance
A conventional humanistic parable that it is wise and graceful all the same Aug 27, 2009 | Full Review…
A conventional humanistic parable that it is wise and graceful all the same
Fernando F. Croce
A trip to Israeli nowheresville by a minor Egyptian civic band is an occasion for a interesting little filmic investigation into what forces make us all tick. Everyone expects trouble ... and are pleasantly disappointed. Slowly budding revelation sparkles like light on a pond across the faces of this cast of unknowns.
Super Reviewer
A touching and considered slice of life that's kind of like those small-town-in-the-Midwest movies where everyone's in pain, except it happens in the Israeli desert, and the new guys in town are a police band from Egypt. A lean film, but one that still takes its time, and one that was well lauded on the festival circuit. Definitely worth a look - reminded me of Wim Wenders for no obvious reason.
An enormously touching slice-of-life drama that I really connected with. *more thoughts soon*
"Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this...It wasn't that important." A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
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