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The Band's Visit
Directed by
Eran Kolirin
PG-13
2007
83m
Comedy
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7.5
98%
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
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Cast of The Band's Visit
Sasson Gabai
Tewfiq Zakaria
Ronit Elkabetz
Dina
Saleh Bakri
Khaled
Khalifa Natour
Simon
Shlomi Avraham
Papi
Rubi Moskovitz
Itzik
Jabarin Camal
Imad
Uri Gavriel
Avrum
Imad Jabarin
Major-general Camal Abdel Azim
Hilla Sarjon
Iris
Tarik Kopty
Iman
Rinat Matatov
Yula
Tomer Yosef
Ars
Nadav Asulin
Sami
Ahuva Keren
Lea
François Khell
Makram
Hisham Khoury
Fauzi
Shlomi Koriat
Man with yellow ball
Hila Saada
Svetlana
Eyad Sheety
Saleh
The Band's Visit Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
You can watch The Band's Visit for its political idealism, or you can watch it for entertainment value alone. In either case, it doesn't disappoint.
Detroit News
Tom Long
You expect The Band's Visit to be a sweet little snapshot, a delightful and endearing culture-clash movie -- funny and poignant and human. And it is all those things. What's surprising is how it manages to be just a bit more.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Tonally, The Band's Visit steps gingerly on the line between 'sweetly humane' and 'cloyingly quirky,' but [director] Kolirin pulls back the reins just enough, maintaining control by expressing as much with his framing as with his script.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Every frame of this low-key delight is about foreignness.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Something marvelous happens as the filmmaker, in his first feature, expertly metes out small scenes of communication between people taught, for generations, to be wary of one another: This Band swings with the rhythms of hope.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
[Director] Kolirin wonderfully maintains an atmosphere of both humor and melancholy.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
With luck, filmgoers who discover this gem about an Egyptian police band stranded in a small Israeli town will make it the must-see movie of the season.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This modest little fable from Israel, in English, Hebrew and Arabic, has spellbinding resonances, yet never breaks the spell by blowing its own horn.
Slate
Dana Stevens
At moments, the movie is almost sentimental, but the performances save it every time.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
Pretty, resonant and utterly approachable as a gentle comedy, The Band's Visit is conventionally low key.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
When in doubt, strike up the band.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The Band's Visit resounds with tenderness and melancholy.
Observer
Rex Reed
The Band's Visit is a lovely first film from young Israeli director Eran Kolirin that offers a Middle Eastern inflection on the bittersweet stylings of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Writer-director Eran Kolirin has a gentle touch, although the film is too self-consciously sentimental.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Band's Visit, the first feature by the Israeli writer and director Eran Kolirin, flirts recklessly with obviousness, cuteness too.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Kolirin doesn't go for belly laughs. He prefers subtle, wry humor, much in the fashion of Finland's Aki Kaurismaki.
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