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Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's debut feature, THE BAND'S VISIT, is a subtle, heartfelt, and humane cinematic work that made Ronit Elkabetz an international movie icon for Israel. In a sort of cosmic joke, an Egyptian police band has arrived in Petach Tikva, its eight members uniformed in powder blue and utterly at sea. They're supposed to be in Petach Tikva to play at the opening of a new Arab Cultural Center but they got on the wrong bus. There's no cultural center in the town - there's...
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