Attack

[An] intelligent, involving movie that's by turns a murder mystery and a politically charged argument about contemporary Palestinian identity.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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The Attack

Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman, Paradise Now) is an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture perfect life is turned upside down after a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, Sihem (Reymonde Amsellem, Lebanon), who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Once there, he finds himself in ever more dangerous places and situations. Determined, he presses on seeking answers to questions he never thought he would be asking.
R
Genre
Drama
Runtime
102
Language
Arabic, Hebrew
Director
Ziad Doueiri
Cast
Ali Suliman, Evgenia Dodena, Reymond Amsalem
FEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

Since it opens with a suicide bombing in downtown Tel Aviv, and since its mystery plot involves an attempt to track down a sheikh whose public expectorations call for the slaughter of Israeli civilians, The Attack is most avowedly "about" terrorism. But that's a subject, not the subject. The film ...

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