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Tel Aviv on Fire

2018

Sameh Zoabi

Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Maisa Abd Elhadi ...

6.0

917

Comedy Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A witty and warmhearted look at a divided land (...) Performances are fine across the board"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A genial comedy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at its best when sending up soap opera excesses"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] sometimes feels like a sitcom season compressed into a breathless feature film"	POS
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"An entertaining satire (...) The storytelling is intricate but clear every step of the way (...) With plenty of agreeable suspense"	POS
United States	Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"'Tel Aviv On Fire' rarely sparks more than mild amusement. As political commentary, it’s a thoroughly anodyne affair"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Droll and delightful (...) A sly, very human comedy that is just serious enough around the edges (...) It’s a complete treat to experience"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A fine and funny comedy (...) Inventive, simple and irresistibly sympathetic"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A winning soap opera farce about the insanity of war"	POS

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