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Omar
Directed by
Hany Abu-Assad
Not Rated
2014
1h 36m
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The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
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Cast of Omar
Adam Bakri
Omar
Waleed Zuaiter
Agent Rami / Producer
Leem Lubany
Nadia
Samer Bisharat
Amjad
Eyad Hourani
Tarek
Mousa Habiib Allah
Sewing Shop Manager
Doraid Liddawi
Soldier
Adi Krayem
Soldier #1
Foad Abed-Eihadi
Soldier #2
Essam Abu Aabed
Omar's Boss
Anna Maria Hawa
Omar's Sister
Ziad Jarjoura
Omar's Brother
Wafaa Aon
Omar's Mother
Jehad Abu Assal
Omar's Father
May Jabareen
Suit Store Employee
Hany Abu-Assad
Director / Writer / Producer
Abbas F. Eddy Zuaiter
Executive Producer
Zahi Khouri
Executive Producer
Farouq A. Zuaiter
Executive Producer
Ahmad F. Zuaiter
Executive Producer
Omar Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This gripping Palestinian thriller evokes Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers in its depiction of not only the psychological pressures faced by people under occupation, but the murky moral consequences of retaliating.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's told with a stark, pitiless clarity that leaves you with fewer answers than before.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Omar is romance and thriller. Of course, trust is at the heart of the matter.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
A fraught film ...
Chicago Sun-Times
Mary Houlihan
Abu-Assad offers no solutions here. Instead he paints a portrait of the daily rhythms of the occupation, an endless conflict that has seeped into every aspect of life in the West Bank.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The film works best as a straightforward melodrama set in an anything but straightforward world.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Abu-Assad has created a convincingly noirish hell that feeds on distrust and vengeance.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The somber Omar isn't as controversial as Paradise Now but it too gets behind the TV news bulletins to discreetly put a human face on what is often just more electronic noise. Sometimes it's the quietest voices that are really the loudest.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Abu-Assad does a masterful job of showing, in these seemingly hopeless circumstances, the fragility of life.
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Leonard Maltin
A deft blending of thriller and romance, "Omar" invokes everything from film noir to Shakespeare.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A story of love and betrayal set against political tumult and violence in Palestine, "Omar" is both classic and painfully present in its concerns.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Abu-Assad's tale is less a political thriller than it is a human story - although everything about its setting and circumstances is defined by oppression, surveillance, restriction, and control.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Helped along by an amazing cast of mostly first-time actors, "Omar" feels very fresh, due to its attitude, its approach, and the fact that it offers no solutions.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A tender love story, a haunting tragedy and an expertly crafted thriller with flawed, damaged and not entirely likable characters.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
It is difficult to figure out which is the film's more pressing theme - the power of love to change the course of a life, or the political and social realities of living in occupied territory.
NPR
Bob Mondello
It's the sort of film that feels so authentic that even knowing it's a fiction, the morning after seeing it, I found myself scanning headlines to see if there were any new developments.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
"Omar" does not offer the promise of a just or satisfying resolution, a fatalism all the more devastating given its realistic methods and humane, understated performances.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Bakri, a relative newcomer to the big screen, does a superb job of carrying a film in which he appears in nearly every scene.
Newsday
John Anderson
"Omar" is a real thriller, a snake pit of plot twists, in which the perspectives shift, destinations change and the moral universe spins and sways.
The Dissolve
Jordan Hoffman
[U]ndeniably juicy packaging for what is, at its core, a good but not great crime drama
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