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First Congregational Church of San Rafael
Next Movie night: Friday November 21 7 PM "The Band's Visit"
Our movie for November is a “small” film that affirms our shared humanity with affection and humor. It was a favorite of audiences and judges alike at last year’s film festivals around the world.
This Irsaeli production tells a very simple story: A band from Egypt, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Band, has been hired to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center in Israel. When they land, however, there is confusion at the airport, and they wind up going to the wrong Israeli town. Not only is there no “Arab Cultural Center” in this gritty desert town, there is, according to the local cafe owner, “no culture at all.”
They wind up at her cafe, where she sorts out homes for them to stay the night. She and the band’s leader then spend that night talking and getting to know a little about each other - - not in dramatic movie-style revelations, but in the small, imperfect ways of real people in the real world. In the morning the band goes on its way, but we have all been touched and, perhaps, changed.
7 PM Friday October 24 in the DeHaan Center in Pilgrim Park
“The Band’s Visit has not provided any of the narrative payoffs we might have expected, but has provided something more valuable: An interlude involving two “enemies,” Arabs and Israelis, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary hopes, lives and disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Click here for the complete review
“While this is a film about Egyptians wandering around the Israeli sticks, it is not overtly political at all. Whatever happens between Cairo and Jerusalem happens, as far as these people are concerned. They're just trying to get on with their lives and perhaps find a little meaning as well.”
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Click here for the complete review
Click below to view the Trailer
