Ziad Doueiri’s film is well acted and staged with periodic liveliness, but its earnestness grows wearying.
Ziad Doueiri discusses his latest film and the controversy that it’s recently sparked in the Middle East.
The film is most interesting as an articulation of how its main character’s initial status as an emblem of inter-religious understanding quickly dissolves following a suicide bombing.
Ziad Doueiri’s follow-up to 1998’s well-received West Beirut doesn’t hawk a naïve liberal’s vision of assimilation and cultural identity.