Bikur Ha-Tizmoret

Greetings again from the darkness. Stellar film from rising star, Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin. This film offers the beautifully delivered message that regardless of our culture, we all want to be connected to another person. Other than the language we... Full review

A fully uniformed Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to perform at the opening ceremony of a new Arab Cultural Center but no one shows up to meet them at the airport. Lonely and tired, they end up taking the... Full review

In an ocean of predictable movies, "The Band's Visit" is an island of bliss. When you see the advertising about the story of an Egyptian police band getting lost in Israel, you're likely to roll the film instantly in your... Full review

As a dedicated husband of a BAFTA voting member, we trawl through 100+ DVD's at this time of year. The Hollywood movies all blur into muchness, but then this film comes along without any fancy marketing blurb, no fancy box,... Full review

A movie that should be getting lot more press.Enjoyable and bit quirky to see the kinds of situations people get into, that are much like we may experience anywhere else in the world.Others have laid out the plot well and... Full review

An Egyptian Police Band has been engaged to perform at an Arab Cultural Centre in Petah Tikvah. They descend from their bus, resplendent in their blue uniforms and rather stiff and ill at ease to be in Israel. It turns... Full review

Eran Kolirin is a name to watch out for. This film maker is simply brilliant. In the band's visit he tells a quite simple story, but not without pulling a trick here and there and believe me, he's not a... Full review

With a strained formal demeanor and a face wrinkled with vulnerability, Sasson Gabai's bandleader is a direct descendant of Shaike Ophir's Policeman (Azulai) in the bittersweet Israeli movie of that name. This is not a bad ancestry to have, but... Full review

Very Original and most enjoyable Comedy. The Band from Alexandrian Police comes to Israel and goes to Beit Tiqva instead of Petah Tiqva by mistake. Sasson Gabai and Ronit Elkabetz play an excellent comedy with a human touch. Beit Hatiqva... Full review

I liked this movie. As a viewer, I was subjected to a wide range of emotions during this film: joy, frustration, embarrassment, delight and so on.One must understand that Israel and Egypt had been long time enemies (until the peace... Full review

An understated, touching drama about unlikely encounters.....Influenced by Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, young Israeli writer-director Eran Kolirin has won dozens of awards for this understated, touching drama about unlikely encounters..... ... Full Review

The Band's Visit is a charming film that embraces character. Writer director Eran Kolirin delights in revealing the minutiae and the importance of the miniscule as the musicians out of their element show all the signs of insecurity in their new environment. ... Full Review

Making The Fairy Tale , which sees Kolirin hardly able to contain his excitement for the finished product, careful to stay modest, but obviously proud of his film.....words fail his characters and they resort to musical expression, all the more appropriate when we consider who these characters are:....This DVD release contains a short and sweet making-of feature, The Band's Visit:....The balance of comedy and achingly sincere drama makes for a miniature miracle....It doesn't go well until he begins to sing ... Full Review

Bakri and Hammad are both charismatic actors....the film feels hollow because of that.....gorgeous moments....the most boring screenplay....rare moments of real human behavior (the universality of a call from mom, a bank teller on the make) are good enough to make you wish there were more of them.... ... Full Review

The Band's Visit" is a story about people who have ancient differences discovering to their surprise they are more alike than they've been conditioned to believe. There is no shortage of remarkable moments. ... Full Review

The 10th Cinemanila Film Festival awarded its top prize to Israeli film The Band's Visit , directed by Eran Kolirin, it was announced on Monday night (Oct 20). ... Full Article

Ordinarily I am not, to put it mildly, a film festival party animal - too much blond beauty, air kissing, horrid background music, and "Hello, congratulations, oh sorry, I thought you were the mother of..." ... Full Article

The Band's Visit, (or Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) is an Israeli film from a no-name (in America) writer/director (Eran Kolirin) with a no-name male lead (Sasson Gabai). ... Full Article

The Bands Visit a great new Egyptian-Israeli film from director Eran Kolirinwas rejected as a foreign language film nominee by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for containing too much English and not enough of its native language. ... Full Article

Standing straight and still in their crisp powder blue uniforms, members of Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra wait. They've just arrived at an airport in Israel, and, surrounded by signs that are not translated into Arabic, they're unsure how to... ... Full Article

The Band's Visit, a witty, elegant and deeply affecting film from first-time Israeli writer-director Eran Kolirin, is about the need to break down distrust and enmity between Arabs and Jews. ... Full Article