The Time That Remains
Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2011
(Elia Suleiman, 2009, 35mm, 105 min)
Seattle premiere!
Sponsored by Typecast Films
*Please note updated showtimes
Elia Suleiman is one seriously funny man. With The Time That Remains, a semi-biographical film inspired by his father's diaries, Suleiman offers a darkly comedic narrative that unfolds over four historic episodes. The third part of a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention, The Time That Remains was the key political film at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. It's a beautiful, unique and deeply personal depiction of Palestine in the 60 years since 1948 as seen by Suleiman and his parents.
"A thorny and intricate film that is also breathtakingly simple and honest." —Seattle Times
"It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil as a series of mordant comic vignettes. Imagine a heroic poem boiled down to a flurry of witty epigrams, or a martial statue made of origami, and you will have some idea of the improbable way this filmmaker folds big themes into delicate forms." —A.O. Scott, NY Times
"Where other filmmakers see doom and gloom, he sees irony and absurdity, which doesn't mean he wears rose-colored glasses. His movies may be funny, but they're hardly conventional comedies, not when he takes his cues from Franz Kafka and Buster Keaton. Characters rarely smile, but that just makes their predicaments all the more comical." —Kathy Fennessy
