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Cast
- Ali SulimanKhaled
- Amer HlehelJamal
- Hiam AbbassSaid's mother
- Ashraf BarhomAbu Karem
- Mohamed BustamiAbu Salim
- Lubna AzabalSuha
- Qais NashifSaid
- Dirar SuleimanTaxidriver Said
- Jamel DaherCar Owner (voice)
- Lutuf NouasserCar Owner
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Of all the shocks in the riveting and timely political thriller Paradise Now, the most unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian suicide bombers. - 83
Christian Science Monitor
The film is better than the recent "The War Within," which tried for the same things, but ultimately, and perhaps unavoidably, we are left face to face with the unknowable. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Abu-Assad, who made the lovely 2002 film "Rana's Wedding," is a far more gifted observer of the everyday than he is an action director, which is why, in Paradise Now, he productively sidetracks into a persuasive and often very funny portrait of the irrationalities of life under occupation. - 75
Rolling Stone
Shot in the West Bank, the film radiates authenticity. Even when he plays the action like a thriller, Abu-Assad is in search of a deeper truth. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The terseness of a thriller, the clarity of a documentary, and a mixture of high drama and low humor. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
While nothing truly new or shocking emerges, the film does bring clarity and compassion to its depiction of an act that baffles, angers and sickens people the world over. - 70
The A.V. Club
While "War Within" takes a deeper, more personal look at its protagonist, Paradise Now is a more ambitious film that better contextualizes its central characters and their politics. - 70
Village Voice
Paradise Now suffers from some odd continuity glitches and takes a few too many narrative curves en route to an overly convoluted ending, but the heart of the movie is as tense as the bus ride in Hitchcock's "Sabotage."
