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Sand Storm

Sufat Chol

2016

Elite Zexer

Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel, Jalal Masrwa

6.1

968

Drama Desert noon in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel. Jalila is hosting an awkward celebration - the marriage of her husband to a second, much younger wife - while trying to conceal the insult that boils inside her. Her daughter Layla is preoccupied with a different matter. Her secret, strictly forbidden, love affair with Anuar was just unveiled by her mother. Jalila believes that the world is harsh and cruel, and the only way to win - ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ella Taylor Variety	"The film boasts alluring desert visuals, muscular acting and intricate psychology that should attract audiences for women’s movies, foreign art films and those who believe that melodrama still has a place in cinema"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Absorbing, if not entirely satisfying (...) The lead performances have power, whereas pictorially the film is pretty rough and ordinary"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"It's set in the heart of the desert, but the disturbances of the quietly impressive 'Sand Storm' rage not in the natural world but in the intimate corners of the human heart."	POS
United States	Nick Schager IndieWire	"Arab culture’s misogynistic power dynamics are addressed with incisiveness, if too few specifics, by 'Sand Storm,' the promising first feature from Israeli writer/director Elite Zexer"	POS
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"Rich in cultural specifics but also universal longings."	POS

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