{"id":78764,"date":"2014-02-21T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=78764"},"modified":"2022-10-01T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:28:28","slug":"omar-2014-directed-by-hany-abu-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=78764","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Omar<\/i> (2014); directed by Hany Abu-Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI.jpg\" alt=\"large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/large_4DimIhSAnEbJxbzs6byZqLnU1mI-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest from director Hany Abu-Assad, and his first Palestinian feature since <i>Paradise Now<\/i>, <i>Omar<\/i> is pretty great. Upsetting, exciting, romantic, energetically filmed, great characters and scene-work.  Also, best of all, it doesn&#8217;t present solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in any way, shape, or form &#8211; it&#8217;s far too street-level for that kind of sermonizing. Great stuff. Nominated for an Oscar this year. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/omar-2013\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My review is now up at Roger Ebert.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from director Hany Abu-Assad, and his first Palestinian feature since Paradise Now, Omar is pretty great. Upsetting, exciting, romantic, energetically filmed, great characters and scene-work. Also, best of all, it doesn&#8217;t present solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=78764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2220,2335,2668,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148407,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78764\/revisions\/148407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}