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Synopsis
This gentle culture-clash comedy, the debut feature of writer/director Eran Kolirin, is winner of 8 Israeli Film Academy Awards. When the Alexandria, Egypt police band gets lost on their way to inaugurate an Arab Cultural Center, they end up stranded in a remote Israeli town, where the residents reluctantly put them up for the night. Sasson Gabai plays the band's stoic conductor, Saleh Bakri a suave ladies man, and Ronit Elkabetz a sexy café owner who finds them a challenge. With a deadpan humor reminiscent of Jacques Tati and Jim Jarmusch, the film sweetly embraces a hope for peace and understanding. (Fully subtitled)
Film Information
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
- Director: Eran Kolirin
- Written By: Eran Kolirin
- Starring: Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, Uri Gavriel, Imad Jabarin, Ahuva Keren, Rubi Moskovitz, Khalifa Natour, and Hilla Sarjon
- Running Time: 87 minutes, approx.
- MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language
- Language: English
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Reviews
"A heartfelt, wry and decidedly spry film."
- Will Lawrence, Empire
"A lovely, smart and beautifully understated film."
- David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
"The Band's Visit has not provided any of the narrative payoffs we might have expected, but has provided something more valuable: An interlude involving two enemies, Arabs and Israelis, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary hopes, lives and disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"This movie has a tone, look and mood all its own - it's a joyously bittersweet piece of visual music about isolation, melancholy and everyone's yearning for transcendence, through love, art or both."
- Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun
"Something marvelous happens as the filmmaker, in his first feature, expertly metes out small scenes of communication between people taught, for generations, to be wary of one another: This Band swings with the rhythms of hope."
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Showtimes
- Wednesday, April 2nd
7:00 pm - Thursday, April 3rd
7:00 pm - Friday, April 4th
4:30 pm - Saturday, April 5th
2:00 pm, 4:30 pm - Sunday, April 6th
2:00 pm, 4:30 pm - Monday, April 7th
7:00 pm - Tuesday, April 8th
7:00 pm