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Paradise Now
Directed by
Hany Abu-Assad
PG-13
2005
90m
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7.4
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Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
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Cast of Paradise Now
Qais Nashif
Said
Ali Suliman
Khaled
Lubna Azabal
Suha
Amer Hlehel
Jamal
Hiam Abbass
Said's Mother
Ashraf Barhom
Abu Karem
Mohamed Bustami
Abu Salim
Dirar Suleiman
Taxidriver Said
Jamel Daher
Car Owner (voice)
Lutuf Nouasser
Car Owner
Nour Abd El-Hadi
Said's Sister
Olivier Meidinger
Abu-Shabaab
Abdulrahman Thaher
Mechanic
Hany Abu-Assad
Director / Writer
Pierre Hodgson
Writer
Bero Beyer
Writer / Producer
Amir Harel
Producer
Gerhard Meixner
Producer
Hengameh Panahi
Producer
Roman Paul
Producer
Rémi Burah
Producer
Jeroen van den Idsert
Producer
Yani
Producer
Muhammed Buqai
Producer
Paradise Now Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
... remarkable ...
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film continues to twist and turn until the very end, keeping us guessing as to what the would-be martyrs will do.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Certainly what Said says will not come as a surprise to any Israeli. It's simply that they disagree. We may disagree, too, and yet watch the film with a fearsome fascination.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
A risk-taking but enlightening film that takes the novel approach of examining the Israeli-Arab impasse from the perspective of the Palestinians.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Very good.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
[A] sensitive, occasionally didactic film.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A movie hardly lacking for anxiety and uneasiness.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad can't tell the entire story in Paradise Now, but he can show glimmers of it.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
The movie is driven by the characters' passionate, despairing arguments about the fine line between victimization and violence. But Paradise Now also has, at times, an almost surreal visual flair.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Asks the big questions and answers quite a few of them, although its ending is tantalizingly ambiguous.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The film captures the bleakness of the West Bank and, more powerfully, shows us lives so grim that the thought of paradise now seems enticing.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
With a documentarian's eye and a dramatist's urgency, Abu-Assad sneaks into the mind of a suicide bomber, and also his heart.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's too simply reasoned and too tidily made to shake you up.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Paradise may not change anyone's ideology, but it should convince some that, but for some deeply divisive views of religious morality, people are pretty much the same on either side of the holy fence.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Paradise catches and keeps your attention because of its daring subject, real-life backdrops and the intensity of its actors.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Troubling but excellent.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I felt that I was no closer to understanding the psychology of suicide bombers than I had been before.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
At heart, it's still a simple, personal story about a conflicted young man surrounded by opinions and pressures, trying to decide what he really thinks and wants.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Too bitterly real to be a comedy, but its irony is a useful tool for needling terrorists from the inside.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Hany Abu-Assad's stark, minimalist portrait of two young Palestinian men preparing for a suicide-bombing mission in Tel Aviv is the kind of movie that takes away both your breath and your ability to get out of your seat.
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