The Band's Visit (2007)
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Cast
as Tewfiq
as Dina
as Haled
as Simon
as Camal
as Fauzi
as Iman
as Makram
as Saleh
as Papi
as Itzik
as Avrum
as Lea
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Critic Reviews for The Band's Visit
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The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny.
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.
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect.
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us.
You can watch The Band's Visit for its political idealism, or you can watch it for entertainment value alone. In either case, it doesn't disappoint.
Audience Reviews for The Band's Visit
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.
Super Reviewer
An enormously touching slice-of-life drama that I really connected with. *more thoughts soon*
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The Band's Visit Quotes
| Itzik: | You know, maybe this is how your concerto ends. I mean, not a big end with trumpets and violin. Maybe this is the finish, just like that suddenly.Not sad, not happy, just a small room with a lamp, abed,a child sleeps, and tons of loneliness. |
| Tawfiq: | It's the sound of water and waves, and distant children playing on the beach, and the sound of the bait falling in the water. In the early hours at sea you can hear the whole world like, like a symphony. |
| Tawfiq: | Music today is not that important anymore. |
| Dina: | What do you mean? |
| Tawfiq: | Well, people today care about other things, money, efficiency, worth. |
| Dina: | People are stupid, aren't they? |
| Tawfiq: | Yes, they are sometimes. |
| Haled: | Aren't we going to eat today? I did not join the police to starve to death. And anyhow, I'm not really sure that you know where we're going. |