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Amreeka (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

Nisreen Faour as Muna and Melkar Muallem as Fadi in "Amreeka," directed by Cherien Dabis.
Settlers From Afar, in Land of Lincoln
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: September 4, 2009

Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” (the Arabic word for America) stands alongside “The Visitor" and “Maria Full of Grace” as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States. While the arrivals in the other two movies were not legal immigrants, the indomitably good-natured protagonist of “Amreeka,” Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), is a divorced non-Muslim Palestinian woman with a green card. More

Unmade Beds (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

Déborah François and Fernando Tielve in “Unmade Beds,” the second feature from the Argentine director Alexis Dos Santos.
Looking for a Way In (and Out)
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: September 2, 2009

The two people drifting through “Unmade Beds,” a lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives, cross paths only twice. The first time, Axl (Fernando Tielve), a transplant from Spain by way of myriad anonymous flops, is walking out of the sprawling London squat he unknowingly shares with a Frenchwoman, Vera (Déborah François). He’s wearing her striped school jacket, which he retrieved from the kitchen where she had abandoned it. Axl is looking for someone, and Vera wants to lose someone else, though of course because this is about a pair of fledglings, they are also looking for themselves. More

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