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"There is this connection," Kolirin explains. "In some families it's very apparent, where the father or the grandmother came from Egypt. In some cases it's more emotional, coming from just living there, hearing the music, seeing films, being in the region."
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW - Eran Kolirin's "Band's Visit" is a comedy about an Egyptian police band which finds itself stranded in the middle of nowhere in Israel."This whole identity thing is complex and fluid," he says. "Influences come in, they go out, Israel is going West, Egypt is going West, so they are meeting at the end in the McDonald's restaurant and not where they could have met, not where they originated from, so close. They will meet at America."See the full content of this document
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THE BAND'S VISIT," LIKE ALMOST every Israeli film that reaches these shores, will inevitably be interpreted by American audiences as a comment on Middle East politics.
Since it centers on the interaction between a gro...See the full content of this document
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