It was very slow, challenging. Unless I kept my patience and observed the small signs of humor, it got boring.

Loved the dark humour, and (as a drummer) loved the soundtrack too.

Divine Intervention is a sporadically interesting but ultimately disappointing comment on day-to-day Palestinian/Israeli relations. Consisting of a number of brief vignettes, the majority shot with a stationary camera, emotionless and often unblinking characters go about their daily business with a humor as dry as the arid environment. Some of the humor might illicit a slight chuckle, but most of it results in nothing more than a furrowed brow and confusion. A Palestinian woman walks through an Israeli checkpoint, her overwhelming beauty causing the guard tower to collapse. A balloon with the image of Yasser Arafat on it causes confusion among Israeli soldiers. A mother and son stare at a pressure cooker, the symbolism as subtle as a face slap. It all feels superficially deep, if that makes any sense. Just because something is surreal doesn't make it art.

This film simply never hung together. Between scenes that made sense were numerous scenes that made no sense whatsoever. Like the last scene in the film, 2 people watching a pressure cooker. Ridiculous. Of course one can read a message into it - Israel and Palestine getting ready to explode? - but our message is guesswork. The film itself does not hang together.

A silent comedy whose intention to parody the tension that of Israeli-Palestinian neighbours is more likely to make the general audience scratch their heads, what with some of the borrowed ideas from The Matrix.

One perfect encounter into two different types of people

This movie is nice visually but it didn't keep my interest to the point where I paid attention well enough to understand what was going on.

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Do you remember that gracious first night of me being with you...watching this amazing movie..?.Elia Suleiman was amazing...now watching that again just made me feel your companion...and the good experience of watching a great movie with you...

Revisiting it again it's nice to see Suleiman in an even better and more coherent narrative in his 2010 The Time That Remains.

There is no denying that the message behind Divine Intervention is something of huge importance for Palestine but having a message behind every scene you're doing isn't quite the best ingredient to make a film. As a director, Elia Suleiman does a genius job showing that he is a director of skills and someone with a huge background to use. The way he does his mise-en-scene is absolutely stunning and you just love gazing at his characters orchestrated in a very calculated way to give a certain absurd and hallucinatory sense to the scene. The orchestration was very theatrical and extremely original. And the performances were perfect from Suleiman to the last person appearing. I can't say that they were acting in certain way since most of the times they have blank expression on their faces, yet this was the perfect thing needed to add that value to the absurdity of the scenes. Suleiman did this film as a presentation of the Palestinian situation under the Israeli power. And he brings a very powerful message hidden in a very layered and symbolic way behind every act and every scene we see. However all these messages weren't enough to make a film at the end. I can't deny the fact that i enjoyed watching the scenes, but sometimes the film becomes boring and you simply lose your attention. As a series of sketches the film works excellently, but as a film i don't think it's a triumph.

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art + cinema = divine (intervention)!

I am not sure I got really into the film, made of small scenes, some funny some less funny about the conflict Israel-Palestine. The background story is probably not that gripping to enjoy fully the rest of the jokes.

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Very strange movie !!

A thoughtful well paced drama with comedic bits outlining a very personal and tortured relationship between Palestinians at the wrong side of a checkpoint.

A beautiful, surreal portrait of life, reflecting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and focusing mostly on Nazareth and a little on Jerusalem. There's a lot of darker political symbolic and thematic undertones - and undoubtedly many that flew right over my head as an American - and volumes are spoken in the silent observations of the two lead characters. That said, it's also a riotously funny film with a great visual flair, directorial pace, and razor sharp sense of ultra-dry humor. This is brilliant, edgy, surreal, wonderful filmmaking. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of a Katsuhito Ishii film - looking at The Taste of Tea and Funky Forest in terms of comedy - with much more to say under the surface. Fantastic. Definitely give it a look.

une œuvre accomplie en son genre

An mordantly dark absurdist agitprop comedy filled with deadpan & burlesque-style humor centered around the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is a dead-tired, absurdist reply to life under such occupation. The film takes on the weirdness of life in the occupied territories with moments of laughable absurdity and poignant symbolism, enough to make me laughing at the idiocy, callousness and cruelty of man. Puzzling, bizarre, surreal and satirical sketch comedy and individual snippets dominates most of the time but the serious tone is well-maintained. A hard film to comprehend for conventional viewers (it is presented virtually almost no dialogue with a non-narrative scattered plot) but undoubtedly enjoyable to watch. It will quickly turn off viewers with traditional expectations and bore Razak Mohideen's fans to death, but again it is intellectual comedy at the end of its tether, a really poetic and brilliant one! Recommend!