Hoary stereotypes about hot weather and hot bloodedness aside, there's something almost Nordic about Divine Intervention, Elia Suleiman's controversial absurdist film about life in occupied Palestine.

Marked by unsmiling faces, long silences, meaningful stillshots, laconic dialogue (there's really only a handful of actual exchanges), bone-dry humour and symbolism that practically announces itself, much of Divine Intervention could pass as an homage to Bergman in a land without snow.
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