Tickling Giants
Are you brave enough to tell a joke?
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2016
- Label: Gravitas Ventures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bassem Youssef & Jon Stewart | |
Directed by | Sara Taksler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Powerful docu follows story of "Jon Stewart of Egypt."
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Common Sense Media
3 stars out of 5 -- The film ends on a supportive note, but it’s a melancholy footnote to the lost revolution, with its long and brutal endgame in Syria.
The Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
Youssef himself with his crooked smile and exuberant enthusiasm comes across as someone who in a normal state of affairs would be just another amiably slick joker. But in this context he takes on the bravery and the bearing of a hero.
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CineVue
[The film] surprises us on several levels. It reveals Egypt's familiar Arab Spring experience through a lens, that of satiric comedy, which is very different from the way we usually see it. And it has the personal element of Youssef's involving story.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The film ends on a supportive note, but it's a melancholy footnote to the lost revolution, with its long and brutal endgame in Syria.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
If Tickling Giants never digs as deep as it could, it's still a fascinating look at a culture just beginning to understand the power of sarcasm.
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NOW Toronto
Rating: 3/5 --
This is both a fitting tribute to a brave man and his committed team, and a thoughtful insight into comedy's duty to speak truth to power.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
This documentary tells the unlikely story of Egyptian heart surgeon Bassem Youssef, who, after treating protesters injured in the Arab Spring uprisings, was inspired to quit his practice to become a full-time comedian and political satirist. His program AL BERNAMEG brought him fame as "the Egyptian Jon Stewart," but his digs at his country's government led to his arrest for allegedly defaming Islam and Egypt's president.
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