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Joshua Reviews Scandar Copti And Yaron Shani’s Ajami [DVD Review]
Going into any year’s respective Oscar season, one area of Academy Awards is often unknown to the general public: the foreign film category.
With most of the film’s not getting the chance to screen outside of places like New York or La, many of the films that are nominated for the Best Foreign Film award seem to come out of nowhere, particularly knowing the process behind getting nominated (each country can submit only one film for consideration).
Well, with nominated films like A Prophet and The White Ribbonboth hitting DVD earlier this year, and the award winner The Secret In Their Eyesstill making its way throughout theaters stateside, Israel’s submission and subsequent nominated film, Ajami, has finally been released on DVD.
And I have to say, it was well worth the wait.
Ajami, named after an area of Jaffa where Jews, Christians, Palestinians and Arabs attempt to live together,...
With most of the film’s not getting the chance to screen outside of places like New York or La, many of the films that are nominated for the Best Foreign Film award seem to come out of nowhere, particularly knowing the process behind getting nominated (each country can submit only one film for consideration).
Well, with nominated films like A Prophet and The White Ribbonboth hitting DVD earlier this year, and the award winner The Secret In Their Eyesstill making its way throughout theaters stateside, Israel’s submission and subsequent nominated film, Ajami, has finally been released on DVD.
And I have to say, it was well worth the wait.
Ajami, named after an area of Jaffa where Jews, Christians, Palestinians and Arabs attempt to live together,...
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Ajami
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rating (out of 5): ***
Scandar Copti, a Palestinian, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew, teamed up to direct the crime drama Ajami. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film, which seems more a result of that behind-the-scenes achievement than anything that occurs onscreen. Indeed, comparing it to some of Amos Gitai's better films (Yom Yom, Kadosh, etc.) it feels rather graceless, and compared to something like City of God,Ajami feels practically inert.
And yet the film is still effective in its own, small way. It follows several characters in five overlapping chapters, all set in one multi-ethnic section of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv. It begins as a man working on a car is gunned down in the street. It turns out that the real target was the neighbor who sold him the car, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), an Arab Israeli. Worse, Omar...
Rating (out of 5): ***
Scandar Copti, a Palestinian, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew, teamed up to direct the crime drama Ajami. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film, which seems more a result of that behind-the-scenes achievement than anything that occurs onscreen. Indeed, comparing it to some of Amos Gitai's better films (Yom Yom, Kadosh, etc.) it feels rather graceless, and compared to something like City of God,Ajami feels practically inert.
And yet the film is still effective in its own, small way. It follows several characters in five overlapping chapters, all set in one multi-ethnic section of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv. It begins as a man working on a car is gunned down in the street. It turns out that the real target was the neighbor who sold him the car, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), an Arab Israeli. Worse, Omar...
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Ajami: Film review
Taking its name from a benighted neighbourhood of the ancient coastal city of Jaffa, Ajamirepresented Israel with a nomination in the foreign language category at the Academy Awards earlier this year. It is, however, co-directed and co-scripted by Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew, and Scandar Copti, who carefully calls himself a "Palestinian citizen of the Israeli state". As their film shows, what you are and where you're from ultimately defines your destiny in Ajami.
The film borrows from the techniques of Gomorrah and the Mexican new wave as typified by, say, Amores Perros, in weaving characters and storylines to create a tapestry of lives. The drama is kickstarted by a drive-by shooting that kills an innocent boy, mistaken for one of the main characters, Omar (Shahir Kabaha). It's the result of a vendetta between two crime clans and revenge for the shooting of a Bedouin weeks earlier.
Terrorised, Omar's...
The film borrows from the techniques of Gomorrah and the Mexican new wave as typified by, say, Amores Perros, in weaving characters and storylines to create a tapestry of lives. The drama is kickstarted by a drive-by shooting that kills an innocent boy, mistaken for one of the main characters, Omar (Shahir Kabaha). It's the result of a vendetta between two crime clans and revenge for the shooting of a Bedouin weeks earlier.
Terrorised, Omar's...
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This week's new films
Ajami(15)
(Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, 2009, Isr/Ger) Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Eran Naim. 125 mins.
If any situation justifies the multi-angled Crash/Amores Perros-style treatment, it's modern-day Israel. Co-written and directed by an Israeli and a Palestinian, mostly using non-professional actors, this is more hip, streetwise and even-handed than we're used to. Set in a mixed neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, the plot skilfully juggles intertwined stories of feuds, families, drugs and violence involving characters from all faiths.
Trash Humpers(18)
(Harmony Korine, 2009, Us/UK) Brian Kotzue, Travis Nicholson, Rachel Korine. 78 mins.
Korine preserves his enfant terrible reputation with a scrappy, seedy home video following a group of masked delinquents around. It's a vaudeville of depravity (they literally hump dustbins) that manages to be grimy without being explicit.
Wild Grass (12A)
(Alain Resnais, 2009, Fra/Ita) André Dussolier, Sabine Azéma. 104 mins.
Veteran Resnais crafts a silky, genre-hopping middle-aged romance that's full of wonders and mysteries.
(Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, 2009, Isr/Ger) Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Eran Naim. 125 mins.
If any situation justifies the multi-angled Crash/Amores Perros-style treatment, it's modern-day Israel. Co-written and directed by an Israeli and a Palestinian, mostly using non-professional actors, this is more hip, streetwise and even-handed than we're used to. Set in a mixed neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, the plot skilfully juggles intertwined stories of feuds, families, drugs and violence involving characters from all faiths.
Trash Humpers(18)
(Harmony Korine, 2009, Us/UK) Brian Kotzue, Travis Nicholson, Rachel Korine. 78 mins.
Korine preserves his enfant terrible reputation with a scrappy, seedy home video following a group of masked delinquents around. It's a vaudeville of depravity (they literally hump dustbins) that manages to be grimy without being explicit.
Wild Grass (12A)
(Alain Resnais, 2009, Fra/Ita) André Dussolier, Sabine Azéma. 104 mins.
Veteran Resnais crafts a silky, genre-hopping middle-aged romance that's full of wonders and mysteries.
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Film: Review:Ajami
The title of the Academy Award-nominated drama Ajamirefers to the neighborhood in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa sub-city where the action begins. In the opening scene, a boy is shot dead in the street, because of a misunderstanding related to a mob vendetta. The man whom the assassins meant to kill, Shahir Kabaha, attempts to broker a deal to keep his family safe, but he needs money, and his illicit romance with his boss’ daughter threatens both his livelihood and his life. Meanwhile, Kabaha’s co-worker Ibrahim Fregehas just arrived back in town from the Palestinian territories—illegally—and ...
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Portland Film Fest Review: Ajami
The Middle East is such a powder keg that we've come to assume every film from that region will be About the fact that it's a powder keg. Ajamiis what you'd expect in that regard, but in nearly every other way it's a surprise, a bold and serious film about the frail threads that keep -- or fail to keep -- a society from falling apart.
The title refers to a rather sketchy neighborhood in the Israeli city of Jaffa, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews live uneasily with each other. To begin with, a teenager is gunned down outside his house. Our narrator, a young boy named Nasri (Fouad Habash), lives next door and reports that the intended victim was his 19-year-old brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), a decent young man who became a target for a Bedouin group only because Omar's uncle shot one of them. Sure, the guy...
The title refers to a rather sketchy neighborhood in the Israeli city of Jaffa, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews live uneasily with each other. To begin with, a teenager is gunned down outside his house. Our narrator, a young boy named Nasri (Fouad Habash), lives next door and reports that the intended victim was his 19-year-old brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), a decent young man who became a target for a Bedouin group only because Omar's uncle shot one of them. Sure, the guy...
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Ajami
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Ajami
Directed by: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Eran Naim
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: unrated
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Country: Israel
Plot: Palestinians’ and Israelis’ lives intersect, usually in violent ways, in an interracial neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Who’S It For? This nominee for the Best Foreign Feature Oscar is Israel’s answer to Pulp Fiction.
Overall
Ajamisort of confounded my expectations. I was expecting a more linear film, which this isn’t. First-time filmmakers Copti and Shani were definitely influenced by Tarantino to create their elliptical narrative. Like Pulp Fiction, the film is divided into chapters that focus on different characters, all of whom ebb and flow into one another’s lives. Also both films deal heavily with drugs and violence and the consequences of messing with either. But from there, the paths diverge as Ajamitakes a much more serious turn,...
Ajami
Directed by: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Eran Naim
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: unrated
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Country: Israel
Plot: Palestinians’ and Israelis’ lives intersect, usually in violent ways, in an interracial neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Who’S It For? This nominee for the Best Foreign Feature Oscar is Israel’s answer to Pulp Fiction.
Overall
Ajamisort of confounded my expectations. I was expecting a more linear film, which this isn’t. First-time filmmakers Copti and Shani were definitely influenced by Tarantino to create their elliptical narrative. Like Pulp Fiction, the film is divided into chapters that focus on different characters, all of whom ebb and flow into one another’s lives. Also both films deal heavily with drugs and violence and the consequences of messing with either. But from there, the paths diverge as Ajamitakes a much more serious turn,...
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'Ajami' worth extra thought
Life is cheap in Ajami, a tough neighborhood in the historic Israeli port city of Jaffa. The film "Ajami" -- nominated yesterday for the foreign-language Oscar -- is a complex look at life in the multicultural neighborhood, where Christians, Jews and Muslims uneasily live side by side. It opens with a boy being slain in a drive-by shooting as he works on his new car. The bullets were not meant for him but for a young neighbor, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), whose family found itself targeted after an uncle killed a gangster.
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Ajami
Kino International
Reviewed for New York Cool by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Written By: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Eran Naim, Scandar Copti
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/19/09
Opens: February 3, 2010
The word on the street is that Israelis do some great things with technology, but movies are not their forte. Every once in a while, there.s an exception, in this case .Ajami,. a film whose appeal is nonetheless limited by its complexity. To get an idea of the film.s substance, think of Paul Haggis.s .Crash,. which interweaves a collection of characters during a two-day period in L.A., including a police detective with a druggie mother and thieving brother, a racist white veteran cop with an idealistic partner, an Iranian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith...
Reviewed for New York Cool by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Written By: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Eran Naim, Scandar Copti
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/19/09
Opens: February 3, 2010
The word on the street is that Israelis do some great things with technology, but movies are not their forte. Every once in a while, there.s an exception, in this case .Ajami,. a film whose appeal is nonetheless limited by its complexity. To get an idea of the film.s substance, think of Paul Haggis.s .Crash,. which interweaves a collection of characters during a two-day period in L.A., including a police detective with a druggie mother and thieving brother, a racist white veteran cop with an idealistic partner, an Iranian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith...
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