Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York.Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York.Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York.
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- 6 wins
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- TriviaThis film is inspired by a true love story. Married since 1990, the real David & Layla now live in Paris. They flew to New York to meet the cast and the crew during the production of this film. The real Layla designed Layla's wedding dress. She is the guest with green eyes and dark hair who is one of the Kurdish dancing women in bright golden orange gilet, during the wedding. Her husband, the real David, plays himself as the new vasectomy patient who answers to his real name, David Ruby, and gets the appointment with Dr. Jacobson.
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One of the best
David and Layla is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The movie is an excellent harmony of both tragedy and comedy. As many viewers pointed out after the movie, I think the core issue here is that the movie targets to the most important part of us; our humanity; no matter whether we are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish or no matter what our political stand is... we are all human beings when it comes to love. Therefor, David and Layla reminds me of Nietzche's philosophy and its Dionysian instinct; the battle between being Apollonian (rational) or being Dionysian (irrational). If you are Apollonian you care much about the artificial side of life or of yourself; your religion, your race, your political stand, your party and so on. However if you are Dionysian, you do not care much about these things, by contrast, you can sacrifice them for the sake of love, for example. You can disregard this artificial side of the life or you can make compromise between the two sides (Apollonian and Dionysian) as David and Layla do. I think this is what we badly need nowadays.
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- denizekici
- Nov 17, 2005
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- Also known as
- Kosher & Halal
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $120,750
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,491
- Jul 22, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $120,750
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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