Love Theft and other Entanglements lights up the parts other films don’t reach.
Film review By Razanne Carmey
Love Theft and other entanglements 2015
Written and directed: Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan
It is a brave filmmaker who opens with an extended close up of a small pile of cement, grey, rough, ungiving, but this is how Muayad Alayan sets the tone for his unusual comedy, Love Theft and Other Entanglements. Shot in black and white, it makes no concession for the lovely Palestinian landscape; there are no lush olive groves here, no haunting call to prayer only the muted grey wasteland of a slow quiet despair. This is filmmaker Alayan’s visual expression of what people feel in Palestine today. Another brave departure from making the kind of film that the international aid agenda demands of Palestinian filmmakers.
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