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It Must Be Heaven

2019

Elia Suleiman

Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Holden Wong, Robert Higden ...

6.5

544

Drama Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities around the world and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A film that is both enjoyable and frustrating (...) As male-gaze sequences go, it’s a gorgeous one – but it also makes us wish the director would empty out his style toolbox and try something new."	NEU
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Another love letter to Palestine from a modern-day Chaplin (...) [The] writer-director is an attentive, ironic observer of the human comedy in a world of global tension and paranoia"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"[It doesn't provide] a new perspective, a different way of understanding what it means to be Palestinian in a global context."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[An] insightful deadpan odyssey (...) It does stand out as a somewhat more hopeful work than the director’s previous outings"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There are times when the passive, elusive quality of It Must Be Heaven, as with other Suleiman films, eluded me and felt mannered and superficial, but they are stylishly made with a distinctive signature (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"[It] is Suleiman’s funniest and most accessible movie to date"	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"[It] feels more like a collection of wonderfully envisioned set pieces that don’t fully form a coherent whole."	NEU

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