At 118 minutes it is an hour shorter than the play. As with any theatrical adaptation, it relies on the dialogue and the acting, and both are strong. You come to know the men in this room, and the husband and wife who want them to succeed.

The film is at its strongest when it uses their individual journeys during the negotiations to serve as metaphors for the complicated emotions and human suffering intertwined in the larger Israeli-Palestinian mess.

Ruth Wilson in particular embodies a plaintiveness that's heart-wrenching.

The intensely sickifying tint of Oslo... is a product of its Western production.