- Studio: Lifesize Entertainment
- Release Date: Aug 26, 2005
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- 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)
- Director: Simone Bitton
- Genre(s): Documentary
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83The 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.
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80Its opponents, Arab and Israeli alike, the "wall" is a dispiriting symbol of apartheid and defeat.
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60Bitton is Frederick Wiseman-obsessive about the practical details that make this horrific arrangement work, but she's also an unabashed polemicist.
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Tedious left-wing documentary.
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