Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. O... (Full plot summary below)
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Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, Ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.
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| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAbout the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it treats war as a cosmic joke and its participants as hapless but recognizably human clowns. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThe Divine Intervention of the title lies somewhere between hope and fantasy. In a world in which Santa Claus is assaulted in Nazareth, what do you have left? |
| Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisGuaranteed to infuriate anyone with strongly partisan opinions about the region. 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. |
| TimeRichard CorlissElia Suleiman's Divine Intervention is a cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensIt is impossible not to marvel at Mr. Suleiman's knack for turning rage and hopelessness into burlesque. |
| The New YorkerAnthony LaneAs pristine a distillation of Palestinian rage as I've seen outside the evening news. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA mordant and bleak comedy, almost without dialogue, about Palestinians under Israeli occupation. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielRomantic and even silly -- a combination that makes Divine Intervention an almost irresistible work of art. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittDivine Intervention is the "Dr. Strangelove" of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, bringing barely acknowledged fears to the surface so they can be understood. |
