Could it be that the rightful winner of this year's foreign-language Oscar is the only movie released even before it was nominated because it's so good? That's as optimistic a theory as any about Paradise Now, and I'm happy to promote it. In thinking about suicide bombers as real people, filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad not only takes on a brutal, troubling subject; he also builds a great, artistically strong, authentically ''foreign'' movie. Whether Oscar likes its foreign movies this foreign is anyone's guess.
Image credit: Paradise Now: Seamus Murphy
'NOW' OR NEVER (From left) Ali Suliman and Kais Nashef enjoy Paradise
EW's GRADE
A-Details Limited Release: Oct 28, 2005; Genres: Drama, Politics; With: Kais Nashef and Ali Suliman; Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
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