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| | VIFF2002 Film Note For DIVIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Elia Suleiman's second feature (his first, Chronicle of a Disappearance, VIFF 97, won the prize for Best First Feature at the Venice festival), is probably the funniest film ever shot in a war zone. |
 | | But as you would expect from any film shot on location in the West Bank and in Israel, Divine Intervention is not just funny; it's also enraged, absurd, unsettling, morose, sad, silly, serious and hopeful. |
 | | Subtitled "A Chronicle of Love and Pain," this is a singular view of Palestinian communities fraying at the edges--conveyed through a succession of almost-silent vignettes reminiscent of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett. |
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