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Suleiman's familiar offbeat style depends on his accumulation of elaborate detail, episodic comedy and eccentric choreography, but The Time That Remains is a majestic symphony of events depicting life in the Territories from the Palestinian surrender to the Israeli Army in 1948 to the present day. The film begins with the actor/director returning to the West Bank from pastures unspoken, his feeling of displacement echoed by the taxi driver's increasingly metaphoric pleas to his absent controller; "Where am I, Elie?" Lost in a storm in the middle of nowhere, the film begins and ends in this taxi, a circular tailchasing, conjuring from the backseat a chronology of memories which, as the dedication makes clear, is both a contemplation on Palestine and a homage to the director's parents charting their lives from his father's beginnings as a young freedom fighter and gunmaker to the final-reel death of his mother.
The flashback begins in Nazareth, Suleiman's hometown, as the Israeli Army force the surrender of Palestine's Liberation Army. But in Suleiman's own unique tragicomic style, the capitulation is marked not by the official signing, but by the Arab officials' sidetracked glance at the photographer's posterior bending low to take the momentous photograph. Such whimsical asides occur time and time again in this intimate collage of comic fragments, hanging together like independent movements in some absurd rhapsody. While some episodes are purely comic, such as the nurse's Celine Dion karaoke session or the pink-gloved policeman's fervent housecleaning, others are subtly revealing, like the Arab-minority school which wins a Hebrew singing competition, laureled "for the sake of democracy", or a fantasy sequence in which Suleiman tries to polevault the West Bank barrier wall.
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