[Temps Qu'il Reste]
Smart anti-Zionist movie demonstrating that great universal of human nature: That you become what you hate. Despite millennia of Jewish persecution, the founding of the State of Israel necessitated the suppression of Palestine.
Teaching practice in Palestinian-Israeli schools is shown as little more than political and sexual propaganda designed to brainwash Arabs that the United States is neither colonialist nor imperialist in its support for an economically-unviable state like Israel with apartheid-like internal politics.
Like the Maquis in occupied France, the Palestinians fight back in any way they can while simultaneously either contemplating suicide rather than a life under colonial occupation or collaboration. The psychological impact of such choices are deftly and subtly portrayed in this deadpan and ironically-comic agitprop. The dilution and dissipation of much of Arab culture and values in favor of Christmas, karaoke and disco dancing.
The only real problem here is a lack of characterization since the performers here act more as mouthpieces for political positions rather than fully-fledged characters. Nevertheless, it largely manages to avoid didactic polemicism and is an interesting companion-piece to the recent לבנון and ואלס עם באשיר.
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