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- 2002
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
- 2002
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
Summary This documentary pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians.
Directed By: James Longley
- 2002
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
- 2002
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 14 m
Gaza Strip
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6.0
Summary This documentary pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians.
Directed By: James Longley
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Rare vehicle which gives the Palestinian people (rather than their failed, double-talking leadership) an opportunity to speak freely and openly, and that feat in itself makes this one of the most important documentaries of recent times.
Longley has constructed a remarkably coherent, horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days.
Takes the viewer deep into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the powerful immediacy of raw images, some of them very hard to look at.
Mr. Longley makes powerful use of the techniques of cinéma vérité. The absence of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews gives his portrait of daily life under duress a riveting immediacy.
While it is interesting to witness the conflict from the Palestinian side, Longley's film lacks balance (there's nothing from the Israeli perspective) and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context.
A documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary.
Its one-sidedness flirts with propaganda.
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Production Company
Little Red Button
Release Date Aug 1, 2002
Duration 1 h 14 m
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