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PARADISE NOW
Director:
HANY ABU-HASSAD

PRESENTED BY VISITING SPEAKER ROBERT BURGOYNE

Presented in connection with visiting speaker Robert Burgoyne's talk on War in Film, Nominated for the 2006 Oscar for best Foreign Language Film , Paradise Now delves deeply into the minds of suicide bombers, with unsettling results. This was the Opening Night Film for ELFF in 2006 and was very well - received.

"Cogent and considered, Paradise Now boldly ventures into high-risk territory: the mind of a suicide bomber. Nominated at the 2006 Oscars, this tale of two Palestinian friends recruited for a fatal assignment that goes awry is told with non-judgmental grace by director and co-writer Hany Abu-Assad. Charting the mission's run-up in vivid detail, he neither martyrs his characters nor paints them as monsters. The result is a tense, thoughtful drama that's as absorbing as it is relevant."