If you've seen any of a hundred movies about star-crossed lovers, the fate awaiting the titular teens in "David & Fatima" can be predicted from the start. Still, this journey of David (Cameron Van Hoy), an idealistic Israeli Jew who falls for the gentle Fatima (Danielle Pollack), a Palestinian Muslim, is an earnest, reasonably absorbing drama, particularly in its first half.
In Alain Zaloum's movie, a chance meeting leads to a forbidden romance in which the pair eventually flee Jerusalem -- and their apoplectic families -- to elope, though no one in Israel, not even a once-radical rabbi (Martin Landau), can legally perform an intermarriage. They manage a makeshift honeymoon night anyway, but it's downhill from there.
