Comedy
France,Canada,Germany,Turkey
It Must Be Heaven is a satirical and thought-provoking film directed by Elia Suleiman, who also stars in the movie. The film takes viewers on a journey across different parts of the world, including Paris and New York, revealing how other countries share similarities with his homeland of Palestine.
Suleiman’s character is an observer who rarely speaks but watches everything around him. He is an outsider in every place he visits and witnesses the peculiarities of various cultures and societies. The film’s humor derives from the juxtaposition of the mundane with the absurd, the subtle with the overt, and the familiar with the foreign.
Throughout the film, Suleiman uses recurring motifs, such as the sound of a falling apple, to create a sense of disorientation, as if the events depicted are connected yet disconnected at the same time. In one scene, he observes a group of people dancing in a park, and in another, he sees police chasing a man across a busy street, illustrating the contrast in people's behavior in different parts of the world.
As the movie progresses, the viewer slowly comes to realize that Suleiman has been witnessing the same themes of displacement, identity, and borders, which have defined his own life, not just in Palestine but across the world. By the end, the film makes a powerful statement about the universality of human experiences and the global issues that affect us all.
