The Reports On Sarah and Saleem (2016)

THE REPORTS ON SARAH AND SALEEM  
    D: Muayad Alayan                        (2016)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    Maisa Abd Elhadi, Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner,
    Ishai Golan, Mohammad Eid, Jan Kühne
Adultery can be a tricky game to play anywhere, right? Now imagine that the man's an Arab, the woman's Jewish, his wife is pregnant, her husband's an army officer, the place is Jerusalem, and Israeli security knows about them and suspects they're up to something more than a bonk in the back of his van. There's no good way this can end, but for its whole 127-minute running time, the tension never lets up. Issues are resolved up to a point, but the ending's ambiguous, a personalized take on the question that hangs over the wider conflict in the Middle East: What now?