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)
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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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