It Must Be Heaven

By Alivia 2022-03-21 09:03:24

some messy thoughts

Even in sacred church ceremonies, there are staff who don't follow the rules. The priest took off his hat in exasperation and entered through the side door. After that, like everyone waiting outside the door, we could hear what was happening inside by the sound. But everyone was expressionless. Then the priest opened the door and tilted his head to signal everyone to go in. That action doesn't look like a priest anymore.

The male protagonist is very sensitive to violence and danger. It...

By Emilie 2022-03-20 09:03:05

The Comedy Politics That Divide the World

Deconstructing politics with genre comedy, art and politics complement each other, and when one no longer works, the other takes over. The film allows the audience to ignore the general importance of lines, reduce the number of dialogues, and weaken the drama; it opposes the visual language of language, returns to the essential narrative structure of silent films, and expresses emotional information better than in the "non-narrative" field. Multiculturalism and the language...

By Allan 2022-03-20 09:03:05

Watching "It Must Be Heaven"

After watching the quiet life record of an old man with gray hair, artistic clothes, watery eyes, and a cute expression for half an hour, I checked the background information of the film, and then watched it again. The old man is a 60-year-old Palestinian director Suleiman, who starred himself. There are almost no lines in the whole film, and he uses eyebrows and eyes instead of words. The film follows Suleiman from his native Palestine in search of a new home — one without the daily...

By Morris 2022-03-20 09:03:05

Elijah Suleiman: Everyone lives in violence

By Nick Chen / Sight & Sound (June 15, 2021)

Proofreading: Qin Tian

The translation was first published in "Iris"

While some directors keep their best lines to themselves, Elijah Suleiman has spoken just three in four films he directed and starred in.

It is worth mentioning that these three words all appear in the Palestinian director's latest tragicomedy "Must Be...

By Jaclyn 2022-03-20 09:03:05

'Palestinians are everywhere': 'It Must Be Paradise' by Elijah Suleiman

This article is translated from an interview published by BFI Sight & Sound on June 15, 2021 by Nick Chen

The deadpan tragicomedy talks about his new film, It Must Be Heaven, where the trauma of violence on and off the film follows him from Palestine to Paris, and why he finds hope in a younger generation of his countrymen.

By Abagail 2022-04-23 07:05:16

In the eyes of observers, a world of violence and greed is just around the corner, and more often it is a confrontation with individuals at the bottom or famous buildings. What they see in silence is the process of civilization gradually...

By Zion 2022-04-23 07:05:16

The director of "God's Intervention" made a Hanzhique static movie, and it felt like watching a cross talk master copying an Internet...

By Brittany 2022-04-23 07:05:16

7.6 How to say? Too many wonders,...

By Loraine 2022-04-23 07:05:16

I don't know why this tone looks good. Some metaphors I don't understand very well, but I can...

By Ole 2022-04-23 07:05:16

Identity and the world, a director's observation, a Palestinian's...