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GreenCine Daily - ”Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict - namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides - Salt of This Sea will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama,” writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter.
“Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows she is a courageous director able to articulate Palestinian pain and longing to return to the land of their ancestors. But the drama of a Brooklyn-born waitress who naively travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in ‘her homeland’ is depressingly one-note, a story that never springs to life.”
“The seductive scent of political correctness apparently overwhelmed judgment when Salt of This Sea began looking for coin, not to mention a festival berth,” writes Variety’s Jay Weissberg. “That the taste of Annemarie Jacir’s feature debut should be bitter is completely understandable given the untenable Palestinian situation, but the heavy-handed, excessively didactic script plays like a primer for people only vaguely aware of the issues while overly confirmed in their righteousness.”
Writing in Screen Daily, Lee Marshall finds it’s “clearly made with passion and fuelled by a keen resentment at the plight of the Palestinian people. And the film has an authentic, colour-saturated sense of place. But this is not enough to turn an overlong travelogue-cum-manifesto with a flat romantic subplot into a convincing drama.”… [Full Story]
