France / Israel / Germany / Italy,
2007, 109 min
Directed by:
Amos GitaiCinematography:
Christian BergerComposer:
Simon StockhausenCast:
Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau, Dana Ivgy, Hiam Abbass, Amos Gitai, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Verena Mundhenke, Uri KlauznerPlots(1)
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
If as much care as is given to the mise-en-scène was devoted to other elements of the narrative, this would be a brilliant film. This is an amorphous goulash with the neurotic Juliette Binoche, and while I was watching her I couldn't shake the impression that she had wasted an admirable amount of artistic resources on such a character. This is true of Gitai's entire film.
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