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Genre	Drama Comedy
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Protagonists	Jews Muslims
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Production	Subtitled Israeli Hebrew
Period	2000s
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Location	Israel

By Trust Created	Summary	Acting	Film	Edge	Reality
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Wick 66 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Feb 16, 2008 11:57PM PST Edited Feb 23, 2025 10:08PM PST	Great 4.0 Relaxed and delightfully deadpan, with several LOL moments, The Band's Visit works as a perfectly pleasant comedy and… More »	Great 4.0 Extremely well performed by a core cast of Israeli and Palestinian actors whose seriousness draws the comedy out of the… More »	Great 4.0 Eran Kolirin has written and directed a terrific movie in The Band's Visit. More than just terrific Israeli or Middl… More »	Tame 1.3 This movie contains perhaps the funniest seduction scene in years, when a debonair Egyptian serves as Cyrano de Bergera… More »	Glib 1.3 Would an Egyptian Army band come to Israel for a concert? I don't know, but assume not. So the movie is glib not only… More »
BrianSez 17 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Video More » Created Dec 13, 2008 08:14PM PST Edited Dec 13, 2008 08:14PM PST	Great 4.0 What happens when you drop an Egyptian band in the middle-of-knowhere Israel? This movie gives you a humorous view on … More »	Great 4.0 The acting was excellent, both because of the quality of the actors themselves, but also because of the casting — some… More »	Really Great 4.5 So many funny scenes to choose from: the romance direction in a roller rink, the trip out with the conservative bandle… More »	Risqué 1.6 Very tame – only one scene where sex was evident. More »	Glib 1.6 Although the situation in of itself wasn't very realistic, the interactions that happened in this film are somehow plau… More »
davidmfishman 1 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Jan 01, 2009 04:16PM PST Edited Jan 01, 2009 04:16PM PST	Perfect 5.0 a black comedy about a troupe of Egyptian martial musicians, the Alexandria Police Force Band, making a cultural exchan… More »	Really Great 4.5 Sasson Gabai nails the prideful middle-easterner, leveraging his experience of both Jewish and Arab culture to deliver … More »	Perfect 5.0 Israeli cinema has come into its own, as good as any non-hollywood foreign film quality. More »	Tame 1.0	Surreal 3.0

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