Let It Be Morning

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Let It Be Morning

2023

1h 41m

Drama

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LET IT BE MORNING is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri) a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother's wedding forcing him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding finishes, with no explanation, Sami's hometown is put under a military blockade lockdown by Israeli soldiers. When chaos erupts overnight amongst the villagers stuck behind the wall due to the blockade, Sami is cut off from the outside world and trapped in an unexpected situation. As he deals with questions about his own identity and hidden secrets are revealed, Sami watches everything he holds dear begin to fall apart. Written and directed by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (The Band's Visit), and adapted from the international best-selling novel by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, LET IT BE MORNING is a film about a state of siege, both internal and external -- centered around a man who has built a wall around his heart, and how that inner wall starts coming apart when an actual, real wall goes up around his hometown.

Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

02/15/2023

I really appreciated the understated absurdist humor. It's movie that manages to mine a lot of tension from nothing happening.

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (LAist)

02/15/2023

There's a lot of things going on in this movie that have a lot of emotional cross-currents. The best thing is Juna Suleiman, who is absolutely extraordinary. Whenever she's on film, the screen trembles with life.

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Mark Jenkins

Washington Post

02/08/2023

3/4

The gentle yet occasionally turbulent comedy by Eran Kolirin, explores personal, social and political conflicts.

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Nicholas Bell

Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

07/27/2023

2.5/5

Let It Be Morning exists in a stagnant emotional void, a world stifled by the ennui of its main character.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

02/17/2023

8/10

Kolirin is a master of tone and elegant melancholy: “Let It Be Morning” can hold a light mood but be always suspenseful in its suggestion of possible eruptions.

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

02/14/2023

3/4

Anchored by Bakri’s complex performance, Let It Be Morning finds way to be both amusing and quietly devastating.

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Jeff G

02/04/2023

fantastic picture of life in an Arab village surrounded by an anti terrorism trash force where everyone is under lockdown. filmed before the pandemic it gives an aura of the paranoia caused when people are left with no outlet. the wall is in your head!!

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William Bartle

02/26/2023

Good acting and the true facts of the Palestine make this movie even more moving.

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LET IT BE MORNING is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri) a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother's wedding forcing him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding finishes, with no explanation, Sami's hometown is put under a military blockade lockdown by Israeli soldiers. When chaos erupts overnight amongst the villagers stuck behind the wall due to the blockade, Sami is cut off from the outside world and trapped in an unexpected situation. As he deals with questions about his own identity and hidden secrets are revealed, Sami watches everything he holds dear begin to fall apart. Written and directed by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (The Band's Visit), and adapted from the international best-selling novel by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, LET IT BE MORNING is a film about a state of siege, both internal and external -- centered around a man who has built a wall around his heart, and how that inner wall starts coming apart when an actual, real wall goes up around his hometown.

Director: Eran Kolirin
Producer: Keren Michael, Ra'anan Gershoni, Tamar Mozes-Borovitz, Nadav Palti, Jonathan Paran, Yoni Paran
Screenwriter: Eran Kolirin
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Production Co: Les Films du Poisson, Dori Media Group
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 3, 2023, Limited
Release Date (DVD): Mar 7, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $25.8K
Runtime: 1h 41m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1