The Band's Visit Opens This Week

Opening Friday at the Angelika, and I believe the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, is the wonderful Israel comedy "The Band's Visit." Not many people saw the film during its week long awards consideration run at the beginning of December, but if you did not this is a great chance to see this wonderful, funny, warm, and somber comedy. Sadly, a complete bonehead move by the Academy ended up disqualifying this film for Best Foreign Language Film because more than fifty percent of the film is in English- but that technicality is part of the moral of the film- and the emotional core is strongly defined by the English language usage.

For a full review of the film that I wrote two months ago, click here.