![]() ![]() Firstly, a tension borne by the village, the family and the couple secondly, the tension felt among the Israeli soldiers, who are destabilized, victims of a malaise, witnesses to an intimacy both close and threatening. This situation creates a double-pronged source of tension. Hoping to celebrate the wedding of his son in the proper fashion, a Mukhtar (the village patriarch) solicits the Israeli governor to lift the curfew on that particular day, a wish he in turn grants on the condition that he and his staff attend as guest of honour. In order to discuss a fratricidal conflict, it opts for the inverse metaphor: an alliance and a marriage. While the creator has clearly taken sides, he is careful to avoid slipping into simple dualism. Besides its political charge, this is also (and foremostly) a humanist film. Michel Khleifi took his first steps into the “fiction” genre with a political film deeply rooted in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict situated at a time just before the Palestinian uprising, and which established his international standing. ![]()
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