Cabaret Crusades Trilogy
Cabaret Crusades Trilogy
| 01 December 2013 (USA)
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Wael Shawky in his Cabaret Crusades skillfully juxtaposes historical narrative with the childish world of puppetry—seriousness with naivety, fear with humor, horror with entertainment—to focus on events crucial to the development of an Arab identity. While prior to the Crusades different groups coexisted more or less peacefully, the trauma of the European invasions shaped today's familiar dichotomies—East and West, Christianity and Islam, Shi’ism and Sunni’ism. At first sight a history lesson for children, the project ultimately raises important questions about the historicity of identity and consequently the role of history itself.

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TrueJoshNight

Truly Dreadful Film

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Claysaba

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Jemima

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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