It Must Be Heaven | |
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Directed by | Elia Suleiman |
Written by | Elia Suleiman |
Produced by | Édouard Weil Laurine Pelassy Elia Suleiman Zeynep Özbatur Atakan Martin Hampel Thanassis Karathanos Michel Merkt Serge Noël |
Starring | Elia Suleiman |
Narrated by | Elia Suleiman |
Cinematography | Sofian El Fani |
Edited by | Véronique Lange |
Production companies | Rectangle Productions Pallas Film Nazira Films Possibles Media Zeynofilm |
Distributed by | Le Pacte |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Countries | France Germany Canada Qatar Palestine Turkey |
Languages | Arabic French English Spanish Hebrew |
It Must Be Heaven is a 2019 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film directed, written and starred by Elia Suleiman. [1] It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. [2] [3]
It was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. [4]
A man escapes Palestine for a new beginning, only to encounter the same problems as back home.
As of October 2021 [update], the film holds a 96% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "An entrancing blend of the poignant and the absurd, It Must Be Heaven finds writer-director Elia Suleiman returning to action in peak form." [5] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 69 out of 100, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable". [6]
At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, It Must Be Heaven received the Special Mention from the Main Competition Jury, [7] [8] and the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film In Competition. [9]
At the 2019 Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF), the film was awarded 4,000 € in broadcasting rights in Belgium. [10]