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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Why this pick
Like The Band's Visit, it finds intimacy across cultural and emotional distances, using a restrained, humane tone and closely observed lives rather than overt melodrama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2007 1h 23m ISR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A mistaken delivery opens a delicate connection between lonely people. Its small gestures, dry humor, and patient emotional payoff share The Band's Visit's tender precision.
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Why this pick
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Paterson
Why this pick
For the pleasure of unhurried observation: it turns ordinary days, quiet conversation, and artistic routine into a warm, subtly comic portrait of connection.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The eight men of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrive in Israel from Egypt. They have been booked by an Arab cultural center in Petah Tikva, but through a miscommunication (Arabic has no "p" sound, and regularly replaces it with "b"), the band takes a bus to ''Beit Hatikva'', a fictional town in the middle of the Negev.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ronit Elkabetz
Dina
Sasson Gabay
Tewfiq Zakaria