A wedding guest gets stuck in his home village in Let It Be Morning, the Cannes comedy/drama from Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin, based on a book by Palestinian novelist Sayed Kashua. Showing in th…
section, it stars Alex Bakri as Sami, a married Palestinian who’s attending his younger brother’s wedding in an Arab village in Israel. It’s clear from the off that Sami is bored and can’t wait to escape back to Jerusalem, not least because he’s having an affair. But fate has a different idea: the road back is blocked by soldiers, possibly due to the presence of Palestinians without papers in the village.
These touching moments are scarce, as is laugh out loud comedy, such as when the doves released at the wedding fail to leave their cages . The humor here is often dry and understated. Gender roles and sexuality are touched upon: both Sami and his brother are avoiding sex with their wives for different reasons, and links are made between male pride and virility.
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