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TPFF: The Time That Remains

The Time That Remains Dir. Elia Suleiman (2009, France/Belgium/Italy/UK, 109 mins.) A little over halfway into The Time That Remains, an ambulance pulls up to a hospital and the paramedics rush their patient inside. While camera remains fixed, a police car pulls up, and the audience watches through the hospital windows as paramedics and police …

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The 100 Best Films of the Decade: 2000 – 2009 (part 3)

79–  Divine Intervention (2002) Directed by  Elia Suleiman Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama Palestinian writer-director Elia Suleiman has rightfully been compared to Charlie Chaplin with his talent to create such brilliant deadpan black out sketches in the midst of his long slow-paced moments of expressive silence. Divine Intervention is his second feature, best described as the …

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