Annemarie Jacir’s period drama arrives in the US a month after the Baftas, effectively Britain’s Oscars, where I Swear star Robert Aramayo beat Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael B. Jordan to the Best Actor award. Any Americans wondering how a supporting actor from Game of Thrones went on to achieve such a stunning upset will have to wait another month until that film gets a Stateside release. In Palestine ’36, however, his talents are swallowed up by an ensemble cast in a multi-stranded film that never quite makes the sum of its parts.
Ironically, though the scenario in the Middle East is still unfolding and very much a political hot potato, there have been several recent attempts to trace the roots of the situation, starting in 2022 with Darin J. Sallam’s Farha. Michael Winterbottom followed in 2023 with Shoshana (a film that premiered a full month before the horrors of October
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