Disengagement

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Audience Member A rather brilliant allegory, where a character begs followers to heed his words: "It's a parable!". You can not miss that which you have never known. The literal and the representation play out parallel to each other, lending weight and universal resonance to the specificity of the politics, both illuminating and giving depth to the film's main conflict. A masterwork of craft, structure, pace and imagery. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Poorly-directed political garbage. A wonderful cure for insomnia. Juliette Binoche was surprisngly BAD. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It is a terrible shame to see Juliette Binoche in such a sappy and overtly propagandist film! Not only is it incoherent (the first part in Paris, where Binoche parades drunk at her father's funeral flashing herself at her half-brother, has almost nothing to do with the second one in Gaza, where amid her dazed confusion she somehow musters some misguided passion); it is also a terribly flat one-sided view of the "disengagement" from Gaza (against). It even dares to soil Mahmoud Darwish's great "O those who pass between fleeting words"... So, if you bought The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle East Conflict, this movie is for you! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member i had a great review 4 this i posted it and poof its gone-wtf flixie?!? Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member well made and interesting Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review walter m So what do you do with a filmmaker whose technical skills far outweigh any ability to tell a story or get a valid point across? Case in point, Amos Gitai. I was wowed by his film "Kadosh" but since then it has been a series of frustrations. His film "Disengagement" gets off to a promising start, however, with an encounter between a Palestinian woman(Hiam Abbass) and Uli(Liron Levo), who is on the way to Avignon for his father's funeral, on a train, captured expertly in a single shot. To ease him off the mortal coil, Uli's half sister Ana(Juliette Binoche) arranges to have a singer(Barbara Hendricks) serenade him in a beautiful and touching scene. And then about halfway through, when Jeanne Moreau puts in an appearance, it suddenly becomes apparent that the story has not even begun. That story is centered around the Gaza Disengagement wherein the Israeli army rightfully told the Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip to get lost. Somehow, both Uli, an Israeli soldier, and Ana end up getting involved. Up until then, she has been acting like either a 12-year old or Marilyn Monroe(sorry, I've been watching "Smash" lately), which is especially strange coming from Juliette Binoche, but now suddenly acts with a renewed sense of purpose. On a political level, Gitai, who loves his tracking shots, provides little in the way of insight, especially on the subject of identity, just a lot of people shouting at each other, with just as much attention given to the plight of the family car. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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