In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 2005 film directed by hany abu-assad about two palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in israel”. Today it says “a 2005 psychological drama film directed by hany abu-assad”.
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Paradise Now (album) . Paradise Now ( Arabic : الجنّة الآن , romanized : al-Janna al-Laan ) is a 2005 psychological drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad . It follows the story of two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel . The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category. According to Abu-Assad, "The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue. The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." "Film #23881: Paradise Now" . "It was a joke I was even nominated" , The Guardian , January 20, 2006.
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Paradise Now ( ) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel . It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. "The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue," Abu-Assad said. "The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." Glaister, Dan. "It was a joke I was even nominated" , The Guardian , January 20, 2006.
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It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. "The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue," Abu-Assad said. "The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." Glaister, Dan. "It was a joke I was even nominated" , The Guardian , January 20, 2006.
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2005 film For the Die Krupps album, see Paradise Now (album) .Paradise Now ( ) is a 2005 psychological drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel . It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. "The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue," Abu-Assad said. "The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing". "It was a joke I was even nominated" , The Guardian , January 20, 2006.
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a 2005 film directed by hany abu-assad about two palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in israel
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a 2005 psychological drama film directed by hany abu-assad
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