A Palestinian acting dynasty stars in this uneven but artful film about the alienation that survival sometimes requires.
Photo: Sundance Institute
Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You is a moral fable in the guise of an epic family drama. Therein lies its surprising power and, maybe, its occasional awkwardness. Stretching across 145 minutes, the film opens with a spirited Palestinian teen, Noor (Mohammad Abed Elrahman), as he runs into a West Bank street protest while playing with a friend sometime in 1988. He impulsively joins in, and when shots start ringing out, we see him duck inside a parked car — right as a bullet goes into the windshield. The boy doesn’t re-emerge. As we start to fear the worst, Dabis cuts to a…
