Ajami
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.
Our read · Ajami (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · ensemble entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Ajami
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