chani | To go or not to go (Reply)

I haven't posted for a long time. Yet I saw a few movies...

The Syrian Bride was one of them and I really recommend it.

It's an Israeli/French/German movie, but the director was Israeli. It takes place in the Golan Heights, near the boarder with Syria. It's the story of a weird wedding ON the border between a Druze girl living in a Golan village and a tv star living in Damascus. The situation is surreal, especially when they all face bureaucratic difficulties with the passport officials on both sides. Once you cross the boarder there's no way back.

So the wedding is actually a sad moment because the bride will NEVER see her family again. But the movie isn't really about politics even though the reality of the Israeli occupation is shown as well as an anti-Isreali march. It's about women and what women go through. Not only the bride whose life is going to change, but also the other women: her older sister (a beautiful character and actually the main one), Amal, a strong willed woman that fights for her independence as well as the one of her teenage daughter, her mother, her niece, her sister-in-law (A Russian doctor who married the eldest brother) and women working for the Red Cross, especially the French one who's tied to the family through her work and by Marwan, the second brother, a charming entrepreneur with a gap in his teeth and a fondness for foreign women!

It's simply moving and just human at the end of the day.