boarder crossing....
Feb. 20th, 2008 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duchess_of_pieREVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS: THE BAND'S VISIT
it's cute, but quiet. basically, it's the story of an egyptian police orchestra that comes to israel to play a concert at an arab cultural center. they get on the wrong bus and stay the night with some locals in a small town.
that's about it. you get to hear some people of different cultures connecting and devulging some backstories, each of them needing in some way to reach out to the other group.
there's the stiff band leader who goes out on the town with his host: a tough-as-nails free-spirit woman who's a restruant owner (the main,sad storyline); the ladies' man who teaches an israeli youth how to make the first move on a girl (the funny story line, and my favorite); the leftover group who share an uncomfortable evening with an unemployed, lonely man and his disapproving wife (it's her birthday)(the uncomfortable storyline); and the local who waits by the town's public phone for his girlfriend to call (the random/crazy storyline).
that's it. that's the whole movie. but it is pretty endearing, and shot in a simple way. i appreciate that they kept english subtitles up throughout. there was some israeli and egyptian spoken, but to meet in the middle, they speak english. however, the accents are different, and, bobbing back and forth, it was sometimes helpful to have the written words there.
i wouldn't rush out to see it, but it's worth sticking on your cue for someday.
it's cute, but quiet. basically, it's the story of an egyptian police orchestra that comes to israel to play a concert at an arab cultural center. they get on the wrong bus and stay the night with some locals in a small town.
that's about it. you get to hear some people of different cultures connecting and devulging some backstories, each of them needing in some way to reach out to the other group.
there's the stiff band leader who goes out on the town with his host: a tough-as-nails free-spirit woman who's a restruant owner (the main,sad storyline); the ladies' man who teaches an israeli youth how to make the first move on a girl (the funny story line, and my favorite); the leftover group who share an uncomfortable evening with an unemployed, lonely man and his disapproving wife (it's her birthday)(the uncomfortable storyline); and the local who waits by the town's public phone for his girlfriend to call (the random/crazy storyline).
that's it. that's the whole movie. but it is pretty endearing, and shot in a simple way. i appreciate that they kept english subtitles up throughout. there was some israeli and egyptian spoken, but to meet in the middle, they speak english. however, the accents are different, and, bobbing back and forth, it was sometimes helpful to have the written words there.
i wouldn't rush out to see it, but it's worth sticking on your cue for someday.
