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Can someone give me a parental advisory summary?


There is no information about potentially inappropriate scences on this site or anywhere else. For anyone who has seen this film can you tell me if there is any nudity or sexual situations or excessive profanity ?

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Nobody says anything about that because none of that stuff enters anybody's head as a remote possibility in the context of this story for these characters. The entire movie takes place between dawn and dusk on the wedding day of a daughter of a pretty conservative, religious family in the Golan Heights.

It has been about a year since I saw it, so I'm not quite 100% certain that there isn't even a single instance of profanity. I remember none, though. (And if there is one or two that I'm forgetting, my bet is that it would be the Isreali cop muttering to himself in Hebrew, or maybe in a marital spat in Arabic. Seriously, though, I don't remember any.)

Younger children won't understand all of intricacies of what is going on thematically and politically in the movie, but that's a separate issue. Of course, younger children probably also will have trouble just dealing with the subtitles for the Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and small amounts of French in the movie (English mostly being reserved for conversations between UN personnel and locals).

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You're fine showing this film to them. No foul language at all. Like the other responder said, you're going to have to deal with reading subtitles, that sometimes go away too fast, and (at least on the Netflix streaming version) were cut off at the very bottom for whatever reason (I checked my TV and it has everything visible from the signal).

Also, you're going to have to explain the political intrigue to anything that doesn't understand it.

Robert
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