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The Attack

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Lebanon, France, Qatar · 2012
Rated R · 1h 42m
Director Ziad Doueiri
Starring Ali Suliman, Evgenia Dodena, Reymonde Amsallem, Dvir Benedek
Genre Drama

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. Based on the international bestseller by Yasmina Khadra.

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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

The Attack is most avowedly "about" terrorism. But that's a subject, not the subject. The film, an arresting and upsetting one, is also about love, trauma, and trust, both within one particular marriage and within entire cultures.

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Time Out by David Fear

Imagine a male Lifetime movie fueled by Middle Eastern tensions, and you’d have Ziad Doueiri’s torn-from-Tel-Aviv’s-headlines melodrama, one which drops its handsome husband of a hero into a domestic nightmare.

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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

On both a political and a personal level, the film is pessimistic, yes, but it feels truthful, and never lapses into easy cynicism.

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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

On one level, The Attack is a mystery, but not the kind you think. It’s obvious from the start who detonated the bomb; the only question is why. It’s a question that probably cannot be answered to the satisfaction of anyone living outside Israel or the occupied territories.

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

Doueiri has brilliantly and simply put a compassionate human face on a part of the world where ethnicity still trumps education, class and achievement, where even the successful face, at best, second-class citizenship in their own country.

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Slant Magazine by Tomas Hachard

The film is most interesting as an articulation of how its main character's initial status as an emblem of inter-religious understanding quickly dissolves following a suicide bombing.

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