‘Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep’ Review: Observational Drama on a Distressing Case of Patriarchy is Poignantly Rooted in History

“Genre-defying” can be an overused term these days, but entries like Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi’s lyrical feature debut “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep” earns it, playing quietly and inventively by its own genre-free rules. A tone poem and an observational, fly-on-the-wall yarn more interested in the specificity of mood and atmosphere than story, the film […]