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Paradise Now

Starring: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass

Directed by: Hany Abu-Assad

RS: 3of 4 Stars

2006

"Our bodies are all we have left to fight with against the never-ending occupation," says Said (Kais Nashef) in a videotaped farewell.

Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad's gripping Palestinian drama asks hard questions: When a man becomes a bomb, is he enacting the will of Allah? And how come this movie's stars are more handsome bearded and woolly than they are clean-shaven and strapped with explosives?

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