2017 · drama · comedy · palestinian
Wajib
Directed by Annemarie Jacir1h 47m2017
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.
Our read: Wajib (2017) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · comedy · palestinian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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