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- The hand-wringing and revelations are familiar from many wedding movies, but “May in the Summer” gains added potency from its cross-cultural tensions and the drama the characters face in reconciling tradition with modern life. Two sisters debate who speaks worse Arabic; the mother doesn’t want May marrying a Muslim, even a secular one.
Aug 21, 2014 · “May in the Summer” follows a New York writer who returns to her native Jordan to marry and finds a lot to contend with.
- Cherien Dabis
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Aug 28, 2014 · May (Cherien Dabis) returns to Jordan to plan her wedding — and confront family drama — in “May in the Summer.” (Cohen Media Group)
Aug 21, 2013 · May in the Summer. May returns to her childhood home in Jordan for her wedding. Shortly after reuniting with her sisters and their long-since divorced parents, myriad familial and cultural conflicts lead May to question the big step she is about to take.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Cherien Dabis
- 2013-08-21
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com. Plays as if it's quite undecided about whether it wants to be a socially aware comedy of cultural clashes or,...
Aug 19, 2014 · Running time: 99 min. Ms. Dabis, in her first screen role, plays May, a novelist who has come home to Amman from New York, where she lives, to prepare for her marriage to a professor of Islamic...
Aug 22, 2014 · The hand-wringing and revelations are familiar from many wedding movies, but May in the Summer gains added potency from its cross-cultural tensions and the drama the characters face in reconciling tradition with modern life. Read More. By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW.
Aug 17, 2014 · May arrives home in Amman to prepare for her nuptials, only to find her mother, Nadine (Hiam Abbass), a devout born-again Christian, expressing disapproval toward her daughter’s fiancé, Zaid (Alexander Siddig), because he’s Muslim.
