![]() S., and is played (in utter silence and with Keatonesque melancholy) by Mr. ![]() ![]() Indeed, since the hero, a Palestinian, is named E. The film feels less like a chronicle than a loose shuffle of moments and ideas, like the cryptic Post-it messages that paper the walls of the hero's apartment. But the description is also a little misleading: those large emotions - and a smoldering political anger about Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, as well - are refracted through a series of quick, mordant vignettes, some of which are like cinematic riddles and visual puns, delivered in elegant deadpan. Suleiman does touch upon a son's grief after his father's death, and on the wordless longing of two lovers. Elia Suleiman's new film, ''Divine Intervention,'' which will be shown today and tomorrow at the New York Film Festival, is subtitled ''a chronicle of love and pain.'' This is accurate enough Mr.
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