The Insult (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 1, 2018
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Adel Karam & Kamel El Basha | |
Directed by | Ziad Doueiri | |
Screenwriting by | Joelle Touma & Ziad Doueiri | |
Composition by | Éric Neveux | |
Director of Photography: | Tommaso Fiorilli |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Insult provides a valuable, fascinating and hard-hitting history lesson on Middle East politics, particularly the plight of Palestinians. It instructs, but offers no easy answers. [Full review in Japanese]
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The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE (Japan)
Does an insult carry the same weight of a physical assault?
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Midwest Film Journal
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"The insult shows enough sensitivity and intelligence so the cinephile can finish the movie, like his stubborn protagonists, with a minimum smile of understanding and complicity".
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Cine Vértigo
Rating: 3.5/5 --
From their first encounter, hostile mechanic Tony and older, closed-off construction foreman Yasser are an impossible force and an immovable object.
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Nobody's Reading This But Me
The tinderbox of Lebanese politics and identity sparks into a controlled conflagration in Ziad Doueiri’s calculatedly explosive drama THE INSULT.
Variety
The film, directed by Ziad Doueiri, reveals how large-scale social divisions infect even the most banal daily interactions.
New York Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [A] must-see -- Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri's legal thriller fairly crackles with timely provocations.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
In Beirut, a Christian auto mechanic (Adel Karam) and a Palestinian refugee working as a construction foreman (Kamel El Basha) get into an argument that turns violent. Their feud leads to a court case that soon threatens to open up fissures within Lebanon. Directed by Ziad Doueiri.
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- Sales Rank: 82,195
- UPC: 741952842897
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