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Reviews
The Angel (2018)
Waste of a good budget!
Very poor casting (except with some physical resemblance for a few actors to the characters they play) the acting is contrived, speech is terrible with no evidence of dialect coaching (sticking to English would have made a better movie). But probably being aimed at a non Arabic speaking audience (mostly Israeli by the look of it, accurate Arabic dialect was not important).
The director made some odd and mostly non consistent choices with regards to using historic footage vs. having the scenes re-enacted.
There were many anachronisms and the choice of certain, very Moroccan looking, locations was quite dubious (as opposed to using neutral locations, which would have been more consistent with Cairo).
Overall, a missed opportunity to make use of a really rich story.
Bab el shams (2004)
Amazing epic, a must see
This a very beautiful and very personal account of a story of a nation. Nasrallah did a great job. The dialog, imagery, costumes, acting are superb, touching and very human. Filmography is very good, excellent director of photography.
The fact that it contains two parts is a very subtle distinction between how two generations view the nakbah.
Life in pre-nakbah Palestine is both idyllic and realistic, the depiction life afterwards is very expressive.
The film is a tour de force and emotionally charged.
Two thumbs up!