Yadon ilaheyya 2002

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Simmering, sharply observed work. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A film whose eerie blend of deadpan wit and inner angst upset all your expectations. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The interlocking series of setups, punch lines and non sequiturs add up to something touching, provocative and wonderfully strange. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The film offers up simultaneous critiques of Palestinian and Israeli extremism, but the most radical thing about it is that it's often disquietingly funny. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: It's impossible not to be impressed by the resourcefulness of Palestinian director Elia Suleiman's new film, Divine Intervention, which actually manages to find humour in the condition of living in Arab Israel. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It makes for an intriguing example of how to use art, rather than bombs, to make a sustained political point. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: A collection of repetitive, seemingly unrelated vignettes, as symbolic as they are self-consciously waggish. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: What to make of it? Call it a red balloon lofted into the collective imagination to unsettle, to haunt, even, perhaps, to arouse faint dreams of possibility, if not hope. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Suleiman's argument seems to be that the situation between Palestinians and Israelis has settled into an hopeless stalemate, in which everyday life incorporates elements of paranoia, resentment and craziness. Read more

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: An almost irresistible work of art. Read more

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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A divinely absurdist comedy. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A movie of long, expressive silences, Divine Intervention articulates things that have never been articulated, at least on the screen. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: It's an effective, arresting and terribly moving picture, even when Suleiman's polemical points are ambiguous. Read more