[Peace-discuss] Fw: "Rana's Wedding" - 2p Sun Nov 10 @ Spurlock Museum (Knight Auditorium)

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

"underpaid and overworked government workers..."

A very unusual plot element.  I am not sure how one
would characterize such a thing.

One would think that corrupt, overpaid, and indolent
perhaps bribe-demanding government workers would be
more realistic and resonant.


On 11/10/13 6:25, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Fyi...
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> *From:* "Hoffman, Valerie J" <vhoffman at illinois.edu>
> *To:* "Hoffman, Valerie J" <vhoffman at illinois.edu>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 8, 2013 6:08 PM
> *Subject:* "Rana's Wedding" Sunday at 2
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> Dear faculty, students and friends of CSAMES [Center for South Asian 
> and Middle Eastern Studies],
> I hope you will make a great movie part of your weekend! /Rana’s 
> Wedding/, released in 2002, depicts a 17-year-old Palestinian girl in 
> Jerusalem faced with the need to marry quickly in order to avoid 
> moving with her father to Egypt.  She has only a few hours to find her 
> boyfriend (who doesn’t answer his cellphone), locate a registrar to 
> draw up the marriage contract, and persuade the official to override 
> her father’s objections and agree to perform the ceremony by a 4 p.m. 
> deadline.  Hurdling the barriers of roadblocks, underpaid and 
> overworked government workers, Israeli soldiers 
> <http://www.screenjunkies.com/tag/soldiers/> and Palestinian 
> stone-throwers, the film portrays, as /The New York Times/’s Stephen 
> Holden wrote, “the frustrating experience of living under a state of 
> siege and the difficulty of carrying on the semblance of normal life 
> in such circumstances.” Directed by Hany Abu-Assad and featuring Clara 
> Khoury in the starring role, the film won the Grand Prize at the 2002 
> Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival 
> <http://www.mff.ba/2012/opsirnije_x.asp?IDNovost=285> (with Clara 
> Khoury <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Khoury> winning the Best 
> Actress award at the same event), the Golden Antigone award at the 
> 2002 Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, the Golden Anchor award 
> at the 2003 Haifa International Film Festival 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_International_Film_Festival>, and 
> the Nestor Almendros <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Almendros> 
> award for courage in filmmaking at the 2003 Human Rights Watch 
> International Film Festival.
> The film will be shown on Sunday, November 10 at 2 pm in Knight 
> Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana (just 
> east of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts).  Admission is free.  
> I hope to see you there!
> All the best,
> Valerie J. Hoffman
> Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
> Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religion
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 221 International Studies Building, MC-489
> 910 S. Fifth Street
> Champaign, IL 61820
> Telephone: 217-333-0953
> www.csames.illinois.edu <http://www.csames.illinois.edu/>
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