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- 2005
- Not Rated
- Lifesize Entertainment
- 1 h 36 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Lifesize Entertainment
- 1 h 36 m
Summary This documentary is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. (Lifesize Entertainment)
Directed By: Simone Bitton
Written By: Simone Bitton
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Lifesize Entertainment
- 1 h 36 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Lifesize Entertainment
- 1 h 36 m
Wall
61
5.0
Summary This documentary is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. (Lifesize Entertainment)
Directed By: Simone Bitton
Written By: Simone Bitton
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
61
50% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
43% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
61
50% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
43% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The interviews Bitton conducts, almost all with Arabs and Jews who share her despair, are less meaningful than what she captures in silence: the sight of farmers separated from their farmland, everyday people thwarted in their dailiness, and children playing next to what looks like prison walls.
A deeply personal and unexpectedly poetic film.
The French filmmaker Simone Bitton takes a measured look at the barrier in her documentary Wall, a film that considers hard-core political realities alongside agonizing personal truths.
Bitton is Frederick Wiseman-obsessive about the practical details that make this horrific arrangement work, but she's also an unabashed polemicist.
Helmer -- an Arab Jew who has lived on both sides of Jerusalem and is comfortable speaking idiomatic Arabic and Hebrew -- is particularly well qualified to tackle her subject.
While all this might have made for a potent short subject, the abstract visual monotony begins to wear thin shortly into the 98-minute running time.
Tedious left-wing documentary.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 User Ratings
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Production Company
Ciné-Sud Promotion,
Arna Productions,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
TV5
Release Date Aug 26, 2005
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website
http://www.wallthemovie.com/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
