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The Time That Remains. The Time That Remains is a 2009 semi-biographical drama film written and directed by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The film stars Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri and Samar Qudha Tanus. It gives an account of the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present. Suleiman participated in the 2009 Cannes ...
- Matthieu Sibony
- Elia Suleiman
- Hani Farsi, Michael Gentile
May 27, 2010 · E lia Suleiman's The Time That Remains is the third in a loose trilogy of movies about the Israeli state and the Palestinian people, to go with his Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and Divine ...
In The Time That Remains, Suleiman’s distilled and matured wit suddenly becomes just that. And the effect is quite powerful. Which is not to say that sentimentality colors the film. Suleiman still handles emotion cautiously and tentatively, and the result is somehow all the more stirring for that. He remains above all a cerebral filmmaker ...
Synopsis. "THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi-biographical film, in four episodes, about a family, my family, from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired by my father's private diaries, starting from when he was a resistance fighter in 1948, and by my mother's letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since that time.
Jan 7, 2011 · Movie Review - 'The Time That Remains' - For Suleiman's 'Present Absentee,' A Tilt Toward The Absurd Writer-director Elia Suleiman's four-part look at the lives of Arabs living in Israel over the ...
- Ian Buckwalter
May 22, 2009 · The movie flashes back to 1948, as a ragtag Palestinian Liberation Army resists in vain the much better equipped Israeli forces. His father fights back, but is brutally beaten and left for dead.
Jan 3, 2011 · Review: The Time That Remains. One of the many simple conceits of Elia Suleiman’s film is the way in which one man’s silence becomes a metaphor for an entire nation’s. Elia Suleiman’ The Time That Remains begins with a cab passenger in dark silhouette, blurred in the backseat. The driver’s doing all the talking.
