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- 2010
- Women Make Movies
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- Women Make Movies
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Rachel Corrie, a young American woman and her friends attempt to stop a bulldozer from clearing out some homes and other buildings. Corrie was run over and killed. Witnesses claim it was deliberate.
Directed By: Simone Bitton
Written By: Simone Bitton
- 2010
- Women Make Movies
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- Women Make Movies
- 1 h 40 m
Rachel
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Summary Rachel Corrie, a young American woman and her friends attempt to stop a bulldozer from clearing out some homes and other buildings. Corrie was run over and killed. Witnesses claim it was deliberate.
Directed By: Simone Bitton
Written By: Simone Bitton
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
64
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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While the director doesn't hide her sympathies, she leaves remarkably few stones unturned in a dogged search for answers.
Bitton, best known for her 2004 nonfiction film "Wall," about the barrier Israel is building along its border with the occupied territories of the West Bank, questions her interviewees calmly and dispassionately (though her voice is heard, she is never seen). It's a strategy that yields damning revelations.
It's a well structured, sometimes riveting piece of information gathering that proves once again that Corrie's death was unnecessary and that closure has remained intriguingly, maddeningly, sadly elusive.
Regrettably, the film, almost devoid of music, is drastically undermined at its end by an inadvertently comic rap tribute by the Kansas City performance artist to the "American citizen with Palestinian blood."
The drive to keep alive the name of a young American woman who died beneath a U.S.-made bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier in Palestine continues in Simone Bitton's sober documentary Rachel.
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Production Company
Ciné-Sud Promotion,
Arte France Cinéma,
Novak Production,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Release Date Oct 8, 2010
Duration 1 h 40 m
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