The Time That Remains: Chronicle of a Present Absentee International Trailer (2011)

The Never-ending Story between Arabs and Jews gets another wryly humorous workout, marbled with personal sadness and mystification, in The Time That Remains, Palestinian Elia Suleiman's third leg of his long-in-the works trilogy on his people's place in the modern state of Israel. Inspired by his father's diaries, and the writer-helmer's own memories, vignettish pic is both more rigorously fashioned and a lighter sit than Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) or Divine Intervention (2002), coming close at times to fringe theater, with Suleiman almost an outside observer...