| "Maybe the
most beautiful, powerful and important film ever made about the
tragedies of the Middle East....Forgiveness thinks with emotions."
-Slavoj Zizek, philosopher; Guest Director of the 2008 Telluride
Film Festival
"Told with the tumbling urgency of the
deeply personal…overlaid with an impressionistic vigor and
thematic intricacy.” – Michelle Orange, Village
Voice
"A stunningly poetic feature. A boldly
imaginative and lyrical story.” – Prairie Miller,
WBAI
"Forgiveness provides us with a measure
of the distance between our capacity for understanding and the terrors
we choose instead…trembling the underground, indeed."
-Tony Kushner, writer, Angels in America
"Aloni is clearly an artist of intelligence
and talent. The cast is uniformly excellent…and the film is
stunningly beautiful to look at.” – George Robinson,
Jewish Week
"My god, how could an Israeli-American
director capture the moment of sadness in a Palestinian woman’s
eyes in such an accurate way? The director made me feel dry in my
throat and made me hold my chest to make sure that my heart was
still in place. And I wish for more powerful films, like this one,
that show me that there are still honorable men, and that you can
see the other’s face as human, with no differences of race
or color." – Moheeb Al-Barghouti, Il Quds, Palestine
"Enormously powerful and important, wrenching
and beautiful and devastating.”
– Judith Butler, UC Berkeley |
