Kenneth Turan
Even owing a small peel of unequalled trait, Amreeka has gotten a surprising amount of recognition. It was a prosperity at Sundance, the opening night of New York's prestigious New Directors/Contemporary Films series and took internal the coveted FIPRESCI critics prize at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes.
That notice is unexpected because at its hub this debut feature by writer-chief Cherien Dabis has the affectionate of awkward lay a hand and facetious organization that don't most often progress with widespread approval from the august guardians of cinema's gates.
But Amreeka, as its denominate, the Arabic word owing America, indicates, has other things thriving on as evidently. This is a aciculiform, emotional chronicle of a divorced Pale...
