Out in the Dark

2012 "Love knows no borders."
7.5| 1h36m| NR| en
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Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue.

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Also starring Nicholas Jacob

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Wordiezett So much average
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
adesunandar First of All the line story is clear and easy to find out how, the romance, yep dont ever ask why this is good because its a romance movie. the music is good with a little thriller sound here and made me loud noisely to when the nimr in the runaway.the character is really smooth just like they really have their story for real, this is I call the romantic movie I ever seen beside the truth is this movie were gay movie. i really dont care but I feel love here, I cried when there were fight for their love and I really thinks and grateful that I was born here in my country with freedom.
snowyprecipice Definitely one of my favourite gay movies of all time. The two leads had a lot of chemistry (and Michael Aloni is smoking!), which made their interactions, and subsequently love, feel real. Roy was stellar throughout the movie, and portrayed his inner conflict really well. Nimer could get a bit annoying, but after a second time watching, I realized it was because he just had a lot of fear. There's a lot of conflict in the movie due to the Palestine-Israel subject matter, and it does add a sense of gravity and darkness to the movie. It feels like a star-crossed lovers theme, but it didn't fall into clichés, as far as I could tell. The ending was also left ambiguous but those sick of sad endings for gay movies (like me grr) will be hoping for the best.Overall a great movie starring good actors who have chemistry!
philippe-576-564186 This is an absorbing story that addresses the huge gap between Israeli's and Palestinian's attitude towards homosexuality. The whole cast is spot on but Michael Aloni's performance with his effortless charm is particularly brilliant. In my opinion, the director presents a balanced view of the Israelis and the Palestians regarding this kind of situations. The Palestinians are shown as a cruel homophobic bunch while the Israeli security forces are manipulative and forceful. Sounds about right... The relationship between Nimr and Roy is totally believable and you really feel for both of them. The movie manages to immerse you in the anxiety of Nimr getting caught and the hope there is a happy ending. France is chosen as the escape route, an accolade as a land of hope and human rights. Clever ending, with enough question marks to make you wonder if the two protagonists are ever going to meet again. An excellent movie, fast paced, well acted, interesting and moving.
Bene Cumb Joint headwords "gay", "Islam", "Arabs in Israel" are already so versatile and involving so much controversy that, based on them, one can expect a creation full of hatred, resentment and violence and with taking sides. But differently, Out in the Dark is a film dedicated to high human values (love, trust, friendship, loyalty), and the background and headwords mentioned are only the means to express them. Thus, the result is a pleasant, not strictly a gay film, with love pleasantly depicted, without domination of lust or gay clubbing, with political and social issues present, but without black-and-white approach or appeals to end the situation present in Israel by any means. Both the leading performers - Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni - do a great job, and the ambiguous ending let the viewers nicely ponder on and over the main topics of the film.Thus, Out in the Dark - with so relevant title - is a fine opportunity to become acquainted with modern Israeli cinema.