Must Be Paradise is directed by Ilya Suleiman, who was born in Palestine in 1960, and before that has been nominated or won awards at European film festivals for several of his films, including Chronicles of a Disappearing Civilization "(1996) won the Best Debut Award at the Venice Film Festival; "God's Intervention" (2002) won the Cannes Jury Prize and the Fabisi International Film Critics Award; "Time Is Still" (2009) was shortlisted for the 62nd Cannes main competition unit .
Elijah Suleiman has a unique style of self-deprecating cold humor. His works are absurd, sometimes serious, and poetic, often reminiscent of Chaplin, Jacques Tati, Buster Key "It Must Be Heaven" continues the above style for the comedy masters such as Dunn and others.
The film features himself as the protagonist and storyteller as Suleiman leaves his native Palestine in search of a new home — one without the daily violence, roadblocks, and identity checks. So he went to Paris and New York, but things were not as simple as he imagined, and he gradually discovered that these cities and his hometown staged similar plots.
Why|Why choose "It Must Be Heaven"
Filmed in Paris, New York and Palestine, the film's themes involve identity, nationality and belonging. The seemingly bland narrative, if you look closely at each passage, hides very interesting information, including many metaphors about politics and descriptions of symbols in various places. The absurdity is full of irony, but at the same time there is no lack of warmth and emotion. one side.
Suleiman, who is also the star and director at the same time, has almost no lines, and uses eyebrows and eyes instead of words throughout the whole process. Suleiman plays an "observer" in the film, sharing his perspective as a Palestinian in the language of video, expressing his own thinking intuitively and leaving room for the audience to follow him and listen to the world with a calm mind. Restless and restless.
The film has a smooth rhythm, follows symmetrical aesthetics and a three-stage structure to visualize political issues, with comfortable and natural color matching, and even the characters appear in pairs, especially for obsessive-compulsive patients, the picture is extremely harmonious!
I believe that all of you in New York will feel the same way when you see the "stalk" in the film, and feel that Suleiman's control of details is very precise, interesting and thought-provoking. So what does New York and Paris look like in Suleiman's eyes? What does it have to do with his native Palestine! ? Hurry up to link to buy tickets and have a quick look!
Suleiman returns to the big screen after a 10-year hiatus, capturing the absurdity of the world on the wide screen. Such a movie with strong political implications seems like a very funny "world travel vlog" at first glance, but the metaphors and references in it are thought-provoking. Palestine, France, the United States, everywhere is paradise, nowhere is paradise.
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Screening date: October 25 in New York
Screening location: DGA
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