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'Wryly observed... delicious moments of absurdity'
- Akin Ojumu, THE OBSERVER
'Rudely partisan and playful, it's a film which encases its provocations in a protective layer of fantasy'
- Tim Robey, DAILY TELEGRAPH
'The Cannes Competition's one real surprise...the Arab-Israeli conflict as a poker-faced succession of Jacques Tati-style sight gags'
- Jonathan Romney, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Palestine's Elia Suleiman...dared to be funny as well as dramatic about the present situation in his country'
- Derek Malcolm, THE GUARDIAN
sophisticated wit, filmic references, bold cinematic strokes...entertaining, good looking'
'Suleiman's acerbic study of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict laces whimsical comedy with increasing bitterness'
VARIETY
'A mosaic of precisely composed vignettes...'
'DIVINE INTERVENTION refreshingly opts for humour and open-ended images...'
'...somewhere between Otar Iosseliani, Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati: a pure, almost silent cinema of rare eloquence...'
- S F Said, SIGHT AND SOUND
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'...brings an angry poet's surreal and absurdist touch to the impossible Middle East situation, the equivalent of Jacques Tati of PLAYTIME joining up with the Palestinians.'
- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
'...passionate, funny and painful.'
- Nick Roddick, MOVING PICTURES
'...a string of expertly conceived and executed sight gags.'
- Sheila Johnston, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
'Suleiman's manner - stylisation and use of black humour - is a fine way of demonstrating the stupidity and absurdity of war.'
- Nenad Dukic, MOVING PICTURES CANNES 2002
'Full of twists and surprises - never lets you catch your breath!'
- Ron Holloway, MOVING PICTURES CANNES 2002
'An engagingly offbeat Palestinian response...'
'...this starts with a wonderfully deadpan comic sequence...'
'The gags often call to mind both Keaton and Tati, and the film offers a genuinely fresh and impassioned contribution on a terrible political conflict.'
TIME OUT
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'...series of quick, mordant vignettes...cinematic riddles and visual puns, delivered in elegant deadpan.'
- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
'Divine Intervention achieves the impossible: a description of life in the Occupied Territories which is by turns, lyrical, comic and passionate.'
'...enhances our understanding of one of the great tragedies of our time.'
- Nick Roddick, LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
'Engagingly off-beat...UNDENIABLY APPEALING'
- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT
'Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention is a lyrical, compassionate and subversive look at life in the directors occupied hometown of Nazareth.'
'Featuring a number of audacious and wonderfully executed bravura set pieces...'
- Jason Wood, KAMERA.CO.UK (REGUS LONDON FILM FESTIVAL).
'Bears the observational subtlety of a Jacques Tati satire'
'Inspired'
'The most telling image captures Suleiman and Palestinian girlfriend Manal Khader holding hands at the Al-Ram checkpoint...as it emphasises the tragedy of the conflict in a uniquely human way'
- David Parkinson, EMPIRE
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