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‘The Teacher’ Review: A Powerful but Imbalanced West Bank Drama
Filmed prior to Oct. 7, 2023, the Palestinian feature 'The Teacher' is about the emotional fallout of occupation.
Elsewhere, an American diplomat (Stanley Townsend) and his wife (Andrea Irvine) visit Tel Aviv in the hopes of rescuing their son, an IDF soldier taken hostage by one of the aforementioned groups, who demand the release of a thousand Palestinian detainees in exchange for his freedom. After all, “The Teacher” depicts the horrors and indignities people are forced to accept just go on living, but the aforementioned calculus isn’t allowed to play out with the same visceral realizations as other instances — like the unavoidable, bureaucratic destruction of Adam’s home. What the characters can or cannot do in response, and the catharsis they’re prevented from attaining, are both key parts of their story, and of life in the West Bank at large — a reality Nabulsi conveys in stark, realistic hues, despite her first-feature growing pains.
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