Hey all! Everybody have a good summer?
The Bands Visit, super touching story about a small Egyptian marching band lost in a small Israeli town. This movie is great! I saw the subtitled version here in Valencia (absolutely everything is dubbed in Spain but for some reason this wasn't). They don't march much, mostly they just sit and play. The whole story hinges on a pronunciation mistake made by the youngest member of the band. In arabic there's no distinction between the P and B; they sound exactly the same. At the bus station the youngest member is sent off to buy the bus tickets to Petah Tikvah but instead he says Bet Hatikvah and the whole band ends up in the middle of nowhere in this totally dead town where the only form of entertainment is to stand in front of the one and only public phone in town waiting for your girlfriend to call. From what a reliable source told me, the movie didn't win the Oscar for best movie in a foreign language because it's almost entirely in English a fact which makes the movie all that more ironic. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Jauvra Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
