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Tel Aviv on Fire
2019 1h 40m NR
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
6.7
89%
86%
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Salam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
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Directed By
Sameh Zoabi
Written By
Dan Kleinman
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Sameh Zoabi
Studio
Samsa Film
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Cast of Tel Aviv on Fire
Qais Nashif
Salam
Lubna Azabal
Tala
Yaniv Biton
Assi
Maisa Abd Elhadi
Mariam
Nadim Sawalha
Bassam
Salim Daw
Atef
Yousef Sweid
Yehuda
Amer Hlehel
Nabil
Laëtitia Eïdo
Maisa
Ashraf Farah
Marwan
Ula Tabari
Sarah
Tel Aviv on Fire Reviews
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Alas, the potential for sharp political satire takes a back seat to small screen spoofery, nudging this more in the direction of Soapdish, rather than Joe Dante's transcendent The Second Civil War.
indieWire
David Ehrlich
This farce is far more pointed when it operates on a macro level.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
For a film sending up the contrivances of soap operas, it sure is susceptible to remaining within the comfort zone of clichés itself.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
Zoabi relies on the old adage that we have more in common than not, but it's a lesson that bears repeating - particularly when laughs come with it.
Washington Post
Vanessa H. Larson
In offering a comedic take on not just the hostility between Israelis and Palestinians, but also the shared history and culture that bind them, "Tel Aviv on Fire" is an enjoyable respite from the bleakness that is far more typical of their stories.
Boston Globe
Nora McGreevy
One spoiler: Tel Aviv does not burst into flames. But Salam's career might.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
[Zoabi's] touch is humane, restrained sometimes to the point of diffidence, but genuinely interested in locating small and large truths within broad comic concepts.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
It mostly works, so long as you don't ask too much of it or look too closely.
AV Club
Lawrence Garcia
Ultimately, Tel Aviv On Fire never transcends the schlocky conventions it attempts to satirize. It's yet another reminder that even the most explosive material can be made to feel utterly harmless.
Slant Magazine
Peter Goldberg
Playfully biting as it can be, Tel Aviv on Fire tends to falter when it loses sight of the target of its satire.
Chicago Reader
Jamie Ludwig
A lightweight but smart combination of satire, drama, and rom-com.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Following a soap opera that muddles through the day to day, Sameh Zoabi's film is lightweight and a little repetitive, but its valuable insight is that in many senses, political reality works in rather the same way.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The result is not exactly the most pointed satire ever devised by a Palestinian filmmaker, but it does elicit some smiles.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
[A] delicious investigation of the tightrope he walks between the Israeli army and his Palestinian colleagues as well as his dilemma of needing to write and not knowing the first thing about it.
TheWrap
Michael Nordine
The director's control over the material is such that, even when this all feels like a bit of a joke, it's one you're happy to be in on.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
[A] sharp-eyed, good-natured film...
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Fitfully amusing yet unable to withstand close inspection...
Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
A witty and warm-hearted look at a divided land.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The ending could be stronger, but Tel Aviv on Fire does a nice job of integrating laughs into a prickly real-world situation.
The Spool
Matt Cipolla
[The jokes] poke fun at the torpor Bassam shoves onscreen, and even if they succeed, said bits are shallow and the film confines its characters to a proscenium as a result.
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