The Band's Visit

The Band's Visit, Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin’s debut feature, is a truly heartfelt, awkward, and hysterical piece of cinema. This film pushes aside the politics and cultural divide of the Arab-Israeli conflict making it profoundly refreshing. The terrific writing throughout the film brings out the loneliness in us all. It is a film dependent on delicate subtleties, but it is infinitely rewarding. It will be an eon before the image fades of members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arriving on the screen with their powder blue uniforms.