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26 August 2005 (USA) moreGenre:
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A meditation on the separation fence in Israel-Palestine that imprisons one people while enclosing the other. | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A haunting portrait of one of the most profound geographical markers of our time moreAdditional Details
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96 min | Argentina:100 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)Color:
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Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | Argentina:AtpFAQ
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Simone Bitton etches a haunting portrait of one of the most profound geographical markers of our time: the wall of separation constructed by Israel that shields it from adjacent, conflicted Palestinian territories. With masterful restraint, Bitton both abstracts her subject and extracts its key contradiction as a strangulating protector of life.
Traversing various regions, Bitton interviews Palestinian and Jewish subjects (many off camera) regarding the wall's significance. These, along with an Israeli Defense official interviewed in his office, alternately decry Palestinian terrorism and alleged crimes, or term the construction of the wall a disguised Israeli landgrab. Many question the wall's efficacy and its long-range benefits, bemoaning their separation from neighbors and friends.
Bitton, herself an Arab and a Jew, presents the barrier in stark visual schemes that emphasize its stultifying surface and scarring of idyllic landscapes where, previously, "sides" might not have been so distinct. This exquisite visual aridity, an austere editorial pace, and magnificently layered ambient sound create an atmosphere of stagnation and futile clamor, fairly compelling the wall to speak its own irony. It is through such sparing means that Bitton most strikingly confronts her implacable subject, its dialogue of silence implicitly debating all the things that silence signifies and conceals.— Shannon Kelley