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All That’s Left of You Isn’t Looking for Just Empathy
A Palestinian acting dynasty stars in this uneven but artful film about the alienation that survival sometimes requires.
The well-read, kindly father Sharif (played by the great Palestinian actor Adam Bakri) enjoys tending to his orange groves and teaching his young son Salim (Salah Aldeen Mai) to appreciate poetry. The once-vivacious Salim grows up to be a father himself (Saleh Bakri, Adam’s brother — one of the movie’s chief pleasures is the chance to watch this Palestinian acting dynasty), and his turn comes to be harassed and tormented by Israeli soldiers. The harrowing bureaucracy involved in trying to transfer a sick Palestinian child to an Israeli hospital for an urgent, life-saving operation is yet another humiliation — one ultimately no less violent or consequential than the abuse dealt by soldiers to the other men of this family over the years.
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