Rare vehicle which gives the Palestinian people (rather than their failed, double-talking leadership) an opportunity to speak freely and openly, and that feat in itself makes this one of the most important documentaries of recent times.
Mr. Longley makes powerful use of the techniques of cinéma vérité. The absence of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews gives his portrait of daily life under duress a riveting immediacy.
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Chicago ReaderTed Shen
Chicago ReaderTed Shen
Heart-wrenching documentary.
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VarietyDeborah Young
VarietyDeborah Young
Takes the viewer deep into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the powerful immediacy of raw images, some of them very hard to look at.
Longley has constructed a remarkably coherent, horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
While it is interesting to witness the conflict from the Palestinian side, Longley's film lacks balance (there's nothing from the Israeli perspective) and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context.
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary.