Uma pequena banda egípcia viaja até Israel para tocar na inauguração de um centro cultural árabe. Mas após entrarem no ônibus errado, os músicos são levados para uma pequena vila, onde preci... Ler tudoUma pequena banda egípcia viaja até Israel para tocar na inauguração de um centro cultural árabe. Mas após entrarem no ônibus errado, os músicos são levados para uma pequena vila, onde precisarão passar a noite com os habitantes locais.Uma pequena banda egípcia viaja até Israel para tocar na inauguração de um centro cultural árabe. Mas após entrarem no ônibus errado, os músicos são levados para uma pequena vila, onde precisarão passar a noite com os habitantes locais.
- Prêmios
- 46 vitórias e 16 indicações no total
- Lieutenant-colonel Tawfiq Zacharya
- (as Sasson Gabai)
- Iman
- (as Tarak Kopty)
Avaliações em destaque
The Egyptian Police Orchestra is stranded on their way to play at the opening of an Arab Culture Center. The language barrier causes them to be stuck in a one-horse town with a similar type name. What follows is a touching story and terrific film-making. So much is communicated with so few words.
There are three of four amazing scenes. My favorite is probably the funniest in the film. At the roller rink, one of the band members assists an awkward local with the proper technique in consoling a girl whose feelings he has hurt. It is funny and touching and moving and insightful all at once. The band leader's scenes with Dena, the beautiful and lonely restaurateur who takes the band in for the evening, are so emotional and sincere that I kept wanting to scream at them both! Just great stuff.
I look forward to more from Eran Kolirin and it is very sad that this film was disqualified in the Foreign Language category due to the determination that too much English was used. Still, it doesn't change the fact that this is a terrific movie and story.
The orchestra's leader, the proper Tawfiq, goes to get help when they get off the bus. The only thing in sight is Dina's cafe, where nothing seems to happen. Dina, who is skeptical at first, realizes the plight of these men, stranded until the next day in that isolated spot with practically no money, decides to feed them soup and bread. Dina, who is a lonely woman who has seen better days, decides to take Tawfiq and Haled to her own home and bullies two men that hang out in her cafe to take the others to their relatives.
Dina, after taking the men to her own small apartment, decides to take the men out to a small eatery. As she gets to know them, she begins to develop a fondness for the older musician, who also feels the attraction, but he is too polite to do anything about it. Following the night in the small town we watch as the band walks out in formation to where they will be picked up.
Eran Kolinn, the writer and director of "Tbe Band's Visit", created an intimate portrait of lonely people coming together because of circumstances beyond their control. There is also an undercurrent message about how bitter enemies can come together when they really know each other. Talking seems to dispel old fears since we all are the same no matter where.
The film is enhanced by the quiet dignity of Sasson Gabai, who plays the band's director. He plays Tawfiq with such flair that he wins us from the start. Ronit Elkabetz is seen as Dina, the woman of a certain age, now stuck in that forsaken place. She lives a lonely existence in that forsaken place that she is grateful for the distraction of the stranded musicians and sees a possibility of some bliss even if it's short-lived.
Eran Kolinn is a talent that will go to bigger and better things because he shows he can do it, judging from his work in this winning film.
This is not just a small-talk tale about the fruitful meeting between two cultures and two powers. It's also about loneliness and how people cope with it. There's the loneliness from being old, the loneliness from being sexually outspoken, the loneliness from being retarded when it comes to passion. It's both a very sad and hopeful movie.
Perhaps the main theme is music and the consolation which is possible from it.
Enjoyable and bit quirky to see the kinds of situations people get into, that are much like we may experience anywhere else in the world.
Others have laid out the plot well and nothing more needs to be said about how the story develops.
I found two scene in this movie the kind that one must remember, rather like the many one may recall from Bogart in Casablanca.
The exchange at the phone and the scenes at the skating rink are precious and very well acted.
This is a movie I recommend seeing and then putting into memory to come back and see again and again just for the pure pleasure of a well developed comedy.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe movie was selected to be Israel's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008), but it was disqualified by AMPAS because more than 50% of the film's dialogue was found to be in English, as opposed to Arabic and Hebrew. After an unsuccessful appeal, Israel sent Beaufort (2007) instead.
- Erros de gravaçãoWhen speaking in Arabic, Tawfiq pronounces some words with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation, and some words with the Palestinian Arabic pronunciation. Being an Egyptian, he should talk in Egyptian Arabic dialect all the time.
- Citações
Lieutenant-colonel Tawfiq Zacharya: This is like asking why a man needs a soul.
- ConexõesFeatured in Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name (2010)
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- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 3.054.457
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 67.492
- 10 de fev. de 2008
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 14.587.587
- Tempo de duração1 hora 27 minutos
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- Proporção
- 1.85 : 1