Monday, 24 March 2008

Cinema: Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (2007)

AKA The Bands Visit

An Egyptian police band become stranded for the night in Israel when they go to the wrong town.

I thought this film was absolutely wonderful. A light charming comedy with some outstanding music, I can't wait to see this film again.

The only qualm i had about the showing however was the that subtitles were provided throughout the films and a lot of it was in English (though a fair amount in Arabic and Hebrew). How sometimes subtitles are required even for English dialogue in cases of heavy accents or a jumbled interpretation of a language but not in this case. The subtitles became a bit of a distraction and I found myself at times reading them when i could understand perfectly.

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