It Must Be Heaven

"The Palestinian filmmaker's first movie in a decade is another insightful deadpan odyssey."

"(A) new gem of deadpan critique..."

"It's a soulful sort of comedy, rather than a thigh-slapper, but thoughtful is always better than its alternative."

"Endlessly thoughtful, self-aware, reflective and achingly human."

"Whimsical and wistful yet infused with a yearning for the stability of place..."

"For Suleiman, comedy is a kind of rhetorical non-violence. And yet there is also a pessimism here, a warning from a tarot card reader that a Palestinian state will not be seen in the protagonist's lifetime."

"Filmmaker and actor Elia Suleiman uses his own face and body to express the soul of Palestine in his films, and nowhere more so than in his droll new comedy, It Must Be Heaven."