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Ajami
Directed by
Yaron Shani
,
Scandar Copti
Not Rated
2009
2h
Drama
,
Crime
7.2
97%
81%
7.0
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Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
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Cast of Ajami
Fouad Habash
Nasri
Nisrine Rihan
Ilham
Elias Saba
Shata
Youssef Sahwani
Abu-Lias
Abu George Shibli
Sido
Ibrahim Frege
Malek
Scandar Copti
Binj / Director / Writer / Co-Producer / Editor
Shahir Kabaha
Omar
Hilal Kabob
Anan
Ranin Karim
Hadir
Eran Naim
Dando Ben David
Sigal Harel
Dando's sister
Tamar Yerushalmi
Dando's mother
Moshe Yerushalmi
Dando's father
Yaron Shani
Director / Writer / Co-Producer / Editor
Mosh Danon
Producer
Thanassis Karathanos
Producer
Talia Kleinhendler
Producer
Allan Niblo
Co-Producer
Rupert Preston
Co-Producer
Ajami Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Ed Koch
What comes through is that the troubles besetting Muslims and Jews and their emotional responses are similar in nature. The people involved have so much in common.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
Its sense of ambiance, most apparent during scenes of simple conversation between characters, more than compensates for the cinematic overdetermination.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
The fact that these two Israelis from opposite camps worked together to make this movie is as important as the movie itself.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It does place the audience squarely amid the myriad horrors of a land and a conflict predicated, it appears, on little more than an age-old blood feud and Joseph Heller's concept of catch-22.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
A compelling drama about prejudice and folly.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
It's an admirably even-handed portrait of life in an occupied ghetto that is bounded by checkpoints. Everyone we meet is a more or less honorably motivated victim of circumstance.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's a film that rewards close attention, involving disparate characters whose lives intersect over the course of several chapters.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Ajami brings its audience into a world where the cultural conflict is fierce, emotions run high, yet the hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence shines through the cracks.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Good intentions are one thing, of course, and good writing and filmmaking another. Ajami is lucky to have all three.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It has a complex, elliptical structure that uses unconventional filming techniques to tell a bleak and fatalistic story conveyed with an unnerving sense of verisimilitude.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
While its themes of revenge, mutual resentment and grim fatalism offer little hope for a ready solutions, the movie itself testifies to the power of creative collaboration in finding common ground.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Ajami keeps asking: When do people cross the line? And when does pulling the trigger become a viable option?
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Shani and Copti (who costars as a hipster druggie) elicit moving performances from their nonprofessional actors, who ground the somewhat breathless action in a streetwise realism.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The specifics of the plot in Ajami aren't as important as the impact of many sad moments that build up one after another. Hatred is like the weather. You don't agree with the rain but still you get wet.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Like an Israeli Amores Perros crossed with City of God.
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
Aside from its honesty, I just think it's a really gripping narrative.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
An urgent, immediate, jarring-but-fluid, multicharacter portrayal of Arab life in an Israel ghetto.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Don't worry if you miss some details; this is the kind of movie that rewards a second viewing.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Rarely has the tinderbox nature of the Middle East been so accurately lensed, on such an intimate scale, as in Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani's powerful Ajami.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The complexity might require a second viewing, but there is compensation in the realistic acting by a cast of non-pros and the eye-grabbing, hand-held lensing by Boaz Yehonatan Yacov.
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