ChiaroScuro DVD-Collection
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Last updated: 09 Feb 2007
(aka: Al-Jenna-An • Paradise Now [de])
France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel 2005
d: Hany Abu-Assad
Highlight (Region 2 de)
France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel 2005
d: Hany Abu-Assad
Highlight (Region 2 de)
sc: Hany Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer, Pierre Hodgson
c: Antoine Héberlé (Color, Panavision)
e: Sander Vos
pd: Olivier Meidinger
m: Jina Sumedi
p: Bero Beyer (Augustus Film / Lama Productions / Razor Film Produktion / Lumen Films / arte France Cinéma / Hazazah Film / Eurimages / Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg / Nederlands Fonds voor de Film)
w: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami
pr: 14 Feb 2005
aw: Academy Awards 2006 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year • Berlin International Film Festival 2005 Amnesty International Film Prize; Blue Angel; Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"; Nominated Golden Berlin Bear • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2005 Best Foreign-Language Film • European Film Awards 2005 Best Screenwriter • Golden Globes 2006 Best Foreign Language Film • Independent Spirit Awards 2006 Best Foreign Film • National Board of Review 2005 Best Foreign Language Film • Nederlands Film Festival 2005 Golden Calf Beste Montage; Beste Lange Speelfilm • Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2006 Best Foreign Film
c: Antoine Héberlé (Color, Panavision)
e: Sander Vos
pd: Olivier Meidinger
m: Jina Sumedi
p: Bero Beyer (Augustus Film / Lama Productions / Razor Film Produktion / Lumen Films / arte France Cinéma / Hazazah Film / Eurimages / Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg / Nederlands Fonds voor de Film)
w: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami
pr: 14 Feb 2005
aw: Academy Awards 2006 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year • Berlin International Film Festival 2005 Amnesty International Film Prize; Blue Angel; Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"; Nominated Golden Berlin Bear • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2005 Best Foreign-Language Film • European Film Awards 2005 Best Screenwriter • Golden Globes 2006 Best Foreign Language Film • Independent Spirit Awards 2006 Best Foreign Film • National Board of Review 2005 Best Foreign Language Film • Nederlands Film Festival 2005 Golden Calf Beste Montage; Beste Lange Speelfilm • Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2006 Best Foreign Film
rt: 87:36 (+4%PAL= 91) min
dvd-rl: 16 Mär 2006
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: Arabic Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • German DTS 5.1 Surround • German Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
st: German (captions)
supp: • Deleted Scenes (ca. 28 min)
• Making of (16:27 min)
• Interviews with Kais Nashef; Hany Abu-Assad (4:08 min)
• Filmographies
• Theatrical Trailer (2:41 min)
• Trailer for "The Jacket" (2:25 min)
• Bonus Trailers for "Der Untergang" (2:41 min); "Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu" (1:42 min)
dvd-rl: 16 Mär 2006
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: Arabic Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • German DTS 5.1 Surround • German Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
st: German (captions)
supp: • Deleted Scenes (ca. 28 min)
• Making of (16:27 min)
• Interviews with Kais Nashef; Hany Abu-Assad (4:08 min)
• Filmographies
• Theatrical Trailer (2:41 min)
• Trailer for "The Jacket" (2:25 min)
• Bonus Trailers for "Der Untergang" (2:41 min); "Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu" (1:42 min)
Said (Nashef) and Khaled (Suliman) are the kind of young Palestinians who are capable of sustaining life in an upside-down world. However, it's death—a shocking, horrifying and destructive death—they're headed for when they agree to become suicide bombers. Director Hany Abu-Assad briskly tells the story of how these childhood friends become pawns in a losing battle, displaying the same sharp eye for life's often absurd rhythms that distinguished his expert 2002 documentary "Ford Transit". His latest has already been criticized in some quarters for humanizing terrorists, but trying to understand motivations is not the same thing as approving the actions that result from them.
— DD'A, Time Out Film Guide
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Even though no reasonably well-informed viewer will learn much factual information from the picture, it grips; it even torments, because it lets us move and breathe and shiver and resolve with two particular young men.
— The New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann
•••••
Netherlands-based filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad has done entertaining (Rana's Wedding) as well as interesting (Ford Transit) work, focusing on the traversing of checkpoints and loyalties by Palestinians and Israelis. So I was disappointed by this 'Scope thriller, a watchable but not very illuminating account of two young Palestinians as they prepare to execute a suicide bombing on the West Bank. Abu-Asssad tries to penetrate the mind-set of these characters, best friends since childhood, yet the results are muddled. Like the recent and more modest The War Within, this wants to be both thoughtful and suspenseful, impulses that here wind up at cross-purposes.
— Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
•••••
L'objectif est atteint, mais c'est aussi l'une des limites du film : son caractère par trop réfléchi. (...) Reproche bien mineur toutefois eu égard aux qualités du film.
— Positif - Matthieu Darras
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La grande force de Paradise Now est de refuser d'enfermerses deux personnages principaux dans le statut que tous (...) vont leur assigner (...) A l'aise dès qu'il s'agit de capter un mouvement, une tension, un silence, le réalisateur l'est beaucoup moins pour mettre en scène des discours, et les combiner à des péripéties de polar.
— Cahiers du Cinéma - Jean-Michel Frodon
— DD'A, Time Out Film Guide
•••••
Even though no reasonably well-informed viewer will learn much factual information from the picture, it grips; it even torments, because it lets us move and breathe and shiver and resolve with two particular young men.
— The New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann
•••••
Netherlands-based filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad has done entertaining (Rana's Wedding) as well as interesting (Ford Transit) work, focusing on the traversing of checkpoints and loyalties by Palestinians and Israelis. So I was disappointed by this 'Scope thriller, a watchable but not very illuminating account of two young Palestinians as they prepare to execute a suicide bombing on the West Bank. Abu-Asssad tries to penetrate the mind-set of these characters, best friends since childhood, yet the results are muddled. Like the recent and more modest The War Within, this wants to be both thoughtful and suspenseful, impulses that here wind up at cross-purposes.
— Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
•••••
L'objectif est atteint, mais c'est aussi l'une des limites du film : son caractère par trop réfléchi. (...) Reproche bien mineur toutefois eu égard aux qualités du film.
— Positif - Matthieu Darras
•••••
La grande force de Paradise Now est de refuser d'enfermerses deux personnages principaux dans le statut que tous (...) vont leur assigner (...) A l'aise dès qu'il s'agit de capter un mouvement, une tension, un silence, le réalisateur l'est beaucoup moins pour mettre en scène des discours, et les combiner à des péripéties de polar.
— Cahiers du Cinéma - Jean-Michel Frodon
d = director; sc = screenplay; c = cinematographer; e = editor; pd = production design / art director;
m = music score ; p = producer; w = cast; pr = premiere; aw = awards;
rt = runtime; dvd-rl = dvd release; ar = aspect ratio; sd = soundtracks; st = subtitles; supp = supplements
m = music score ; p = producer; w = cast; pr = premiere; aw = awards;
rt = runtime; dvd-rl = dvd release; ar = aspect ratio; sd = soundtracks; st = subtitles; supp = supplements