The Attack R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 11, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ali Suliman | |
Performer: | Reymond Amsellem & Yevgenya Dodina | |
Directed by | Ziad Doueiri | |
Screenwriting by | Joelle Touma & Ziad Doueiri | |
Composition by | Éric Neveux | |
Director of Photography: | Tommaso Fiorilli |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Imagine a blissful life taken away: Story of an Arab man who's assimilated into Israeli society but finds out that his wife was a suicide bomber. Nothing new here about the conflict, fair portrayal of the sides, thought provoking without solutions.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film is poignant and easily one of the best films to come from the region in recent memory.
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Punch Drunk Critics
Adapting Yasmina Khadra’s 2005 novel, director Ziad Doueiri crafts a moving portrait of the couple’s interknit pathways...
Chicago Sun-Times
Screenwriters Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma pull quite a few punches here, making the doctor improbably naive about Israeli-Palestinian tensions so that his transformation seems profound.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
A sort of mystery in reverse, 'The Attack' is both a character study and a love story. It's also about terrorism and the driving forces behind catastrophic acts.
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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
[An] intelligent, involving movie that’s by turns a murder mystery and a politically charged argument about contemporary Palestinian identity.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Arouses profound questions about fanaticism, cultural identity, and the essential mystery of other people, even those we think we know best.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
An Israeli-Palestinian physician vows to track down the religious zealots who recruited his beloved wife and turned her into a suicide bomber in this topical drama from director Ziad Doueiri. Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is a respected Palestinian surgeon who lives in Tel Aviv. When a terrorist bombing strikes a nearby hospital, Dr. Jaafari races to save those injured in the blast. His comfortable world is turned upside down later that night, however, when police summon him to identify the body of the bomber: his wife Sihem (Reymond Amsellem). Sihem's guilt is confirmed when her husband receives a posthumous letter from her claiming full responsibility for the atrocity, and he finds himself unable to return to his comfortable life in Tel Aviv, instead focusing his energy on finding the people who brought his wife into the dark world of extremism. Later, in the course of Dr. Jaafari's tense investigation, he is forced to face some difficult questions regarding his own identity and the complex decisions he's had to make while living in a region dominated by religious strife.
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