The Color of Olives

Arab Film Distribution | Release Date: July 12, 2006

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MohammedJan 22, 2007

You don't have to be more than a human being with basic free will and opinion to appreciate this warmly felt film. Personally, it made me wonder why it had to be the Palestinians to suffer all that injustice? I mean, really why? The You don't have to be more than a human being with basic free will and opinion to appreciate this warmly felt film. Personally, it made me wonder why it had to be the Palestinians to suffer all that injustice? I mean, really why? The film, directed by Carolina Rivas, presents an ordinary family in these abnormal times. It lives beside the fence the Israeli emplanted in order to feel more secured. While the reason is understandable, the humilation is not. The need for self protection from the terrorists could be acceptable, but the harsh consequences on families like the family we see in this film is not. While the film makes its point clerarly, letting us concieve the full tragedy of this family, and as it makes some of us, at least, think of similir innocent victims of a world failed times over to do justice, it maintains a poetic beauty. A vivid and tender treatment. The Color of the Olives is an artistic look at a human condition without any other agenda except to present its real life situation with a real life sensitivity. I think, this is the only way any situation, story, cause, case or a mere obeservation should be presented.… Expand

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