Elia Suleiman and Gael García Bernal as themselves in It Must Be Heaven (2019, dir. Elia Suleiman)
(for the avoidance of doubt, this whole conversation apart from "Hello, my name is Hernando Cortes and I wanna conquer you" is in Spanish)
Transcript (English) below the jump.
Hey, what's up? No, I'm here. Waiting for a meeting with an American producer… well, she's not American. I don't know where she's from.
It's for a project on the conquest of Mexico, for the 500th anniversary of the conquest. About Cortes, Moctezuma and all that stuff. But they want to do it in English.
Yes, in English, can you imagine? They want the Spanish to speak English. And the indigenous to speak in Nahuatl or any other language. They don't care. So they'd sound like: "Hello, my name is Hernando Cortes and I wanna conquer you." or something like that.
It's going to be terrible, really. Terrible. No, I don't want to do it. I'll tell her no.
Anyway, I'm here with my friend Elia. Elia Suleiman. He's Palestinian. No, no, not Palestinian from Israel. He's Palestinian from Palestine. Yes, Palestinian from Palestine. From Palestine.
Listen, we'll talk later, OK? Sorry, I'll call you later. Ciao!
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It Must Be Heaven
It Must Be Heaven [trailer]
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Opening scene aside, the movie has a slow start. I found the Israel part the least interesting. But once Elia travels to Paris and New York it's consistently amusing and droll. Even though I'm not always sure what Suleiman wants to tell the viewer with those scenes.
The scenes are a lot less static, and the overall mood is much lighter, but the movie reminded me a bit of the movies of Swede Roy Andersson.
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I hate how acknowledging unfairness in the world is seen as "childish". Maybe children are right. I don't think you should be proud of the fact that you've become complacent with the state of your miserable existence and took on this loser "it is what it is" mentality. Things can be better.
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I don't wanna finish this but I like the vibes 🧐
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Hua Cheng would probably start a weekly news letter in ghost city just so Xie Lian can have a place to share the interesting things he learns (like remedies for foot pain), since Ling Wen made him feel bad about sharing it in the heavenly telepathic matrix.
I bet the ghosts and creatures would actually really appreciate it too.
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Película disponible para ver en 1080p, con subtítulos en español incrustados.
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