Disengagement
– A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French w..
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
09 Oct 2009
Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Arabic
Amos Gitai
Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks
A story in two parts and two places. In 2005 in Avignon, a man has died; at his house his body lies in state attended by a soprano and by his daughter Ana, who is in the process of leaving her husband. His adopted son Uli, an Israeli police officer, arrives for the funeral. With Uli, Ana is playful, even foolish, and she attempts to forge a new will of her father's. The family attorney brushes aside Ana's forgery and produces a true will that upsets Ana and sends her, with Uli, to Israel where she must visit a settlement scheduled for destruction in the Gaza disengagement. What are the wellsprings of emotion, and what of an embrace?
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