1639 the reports on sarah and saleem
Review
Score: 2 op 5

'The reports on Sarah and Saleem': two-hour run-time is a touch arrogant

NR
© BRUZZ
21/11/2018

Bread delivery man Saleem is unhappy because he doesn’t earn enough to take care of his pregnant wife Bisan and is forced to ask his in-laws for help. Coffee shop manager Sarah is unhappy because she is constantly being forced to move as her husband works his way up the ranks of the army.

Luckily, they can blow off steam a few times a week by having passionate, no-holds-barred sex in the back of Saleem’s van. Their affair is nobody’s business, except maybe the other halves to whom they are being unfaithful. But Sarah is a Jew from Jerusalem and Saleem is a Palestinian from Bethlehem, and as a result, the innocent affair escalates into a sordid, unpleasant state matter where there are only losers.

Having sex suddenly becomes an act of collaborating with the enemy, little white lies have grotesque consequences for whole families, governments start meddling in intimacy, and it becomes almost impossible to trust anybody anymore.

The solid performances mask the fact that the characters don’t actually have much depth. Some of the imbroglios seem unnatural and transgressing the limit of a two-hour run-time is a touch arrogant, but the Palestinian filmmakers Muayad and Rami Alayan nevertheless know how to hold your attention throughout.

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Read more about: Brussel, Film, Muayad Alayan

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