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Apr 6, 2006 · Reviews. With this visa, I thee wed. Roger Ebert April 06, 2006. Tweet. Clara Khoury (with Hiam Abbass, right, as her sister) plays a bride tangled in red tape at the Israel-Syria border in "The Syrian Bride." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch.
85% Tomatometer 41 Reviews 80% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Mona (Clara Khoury), a Druze bride-to-be, lives in a village on the border of Israel and Syria. Her father, political leader Hammed...
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- Hiam Abbass
- Eran Riklis
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TOP CRITIC. While the film's depiction of bureaucratic frustrations and familial woe are universal, the characters themselves can be difficult to warm up to and often seem as arid as their...
Nov 7, 2005 · The inability to communicate becomes, in The Syrian Bride, a problem both political and personal, with Mona’s ultimate difficulties securing passage from Israel to Syria (reminiscent of the nightmarish limbo of Danis Tanovich’s No Man’s Land) a case study in diplomatic arrogance compounded by bureaucratic irrationality, as well as a ...
2006 S&P Award Winner. The Syrian Bride. Directed by Eran Riklis. An extraordinary Israeli film that highlights the spiritual potencies of hospitality and forgiveness. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Weddings are social gatherings where emotions run high.
This film is about a bride who will marry someone in Syria that she has never met. In reading the reviews, I have found that no one looks at the problem of the Bride (Mona). Most look at her older sister who wants to go to University. She wants to start over after being trapped in a loveless marriage with a husband who is cowardly.
Nov 17, 2005 · The Syrian Bride dramatizes the true-life circumstances that face Druze living in Israel who want to marry within their community but across national borders. Mona (Khoury) knows that once she ...
