Friday, June 10, 2011

Paradise Now (2005)

Director:   Hany Abu-Assad
Writer:      Hanny Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer
Language: Arabic
Film is set in West Bank where two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bomb mission in Tel Aviv. I found the film to be very overrated. The dialogues were bit preachy and felt more like a propaganda film with things spoken in unnatural ways. I found the behavior of characters involved to be not natural.

The film was actually shot in West Bank taking some risks by the director and was nominated for Oscars in the foreign film category.

Rating: 2.5/5

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