Elia Suleiman: The Time that Remains
Organisation: Curzon Cinema
Time: 28 May 2010 1:00pm - 03 June 2010 9:15pm
Place: Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW
Curzon Cinemas presents:
The Time that Remains
Elia Suleiman
Time That Remains [15] | Director: Elia Suleiman | Starring: Saleh Bakri, Amer Hlehel, Elia Suleiman
Belgium, France, United Kingdom, and Italy | 2009 | 109 mins | Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Unfolding over four episodes, The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical work from Palestinian director Elia Suleiman that covers the period in his family’s history spanning 1948 until recent times. Inspired by the diaries of his father, a resistance fighter, the film also takes in the letters of Suleiman’s mother to the various members of his family who were forced to leave the country. Described by the director as "an attempt to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled ‘Israeli-Arabs’", it is a successful synthesis of style, politics and personal diary, at the centre of which is the director’s own Keaton-esque performance.
28 May 2010 | Selected times: 10.30am, 1pm, 3.30pm, 6.30pm (with Director Q & A), 9.15pm
29 May to 3 June 2010 | Selected times: 12.55pm, 3.30pm, 6.05pm, 8.50pm
Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW
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