Movie Review: "The Attack" Now Showing -Amin Jaafari is on a roll. An Arab living in Israel, Amin is a prominent physician who has received a prestigious Israeli award, the first Arab ever to do so. Self-satisfied and apparently secure in his status, Amin lives in a modern home in Tel Aviv — he seems to have found a niche in which he (and his wife) can find fulfillment: or so he thinks. Based on L’Attentat, a novel by Yasmina Khadra, and directed by Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri, The Attack is one of the best movies about what happens to an assimilated member of a minority who’s forced to look at problems he thought he’d left behind. As played by Ali Suliman — in one of the year’s best performances — Amin is a man searching for a truth he may not want to find; he’s also a man caught in a conflict that not only changes the circumstances of his life but challenges his view of himself. Contrary to what its blunt title suggests, The Attack takes a nuanced and thoughtful approach to emotionally volatile material. When Amin travels to Nablus to reunite with family members he hasn’t seen for years and to learn more about his late wife, he’s brought to an agonizing point that many face, but few with such unbearable clarity. He must learn to live with the irresolvable contradictions that now will define him. Put another way, Doueiri’s movie asks a deeply disturbing question: What happens when a man fully awakens — only to discover that he’s living in a nightmare? -Adapted from Robert Denerstein
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:18:10 +0000
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