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like twenty impossibles
Annemarie Jacir
Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew averts a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative, like twenty impossibles wryly questions artistic responsibility and the politics of filmmaking, while speaking to the fragmentation of a people.
Reviews"like twenty impossibles is grippingly suspenseful while also satirizing the power imbalances inherent in political filmmaking"
- FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
"Succint
and powerful"
- FILM COMMENT MAGAZINE
"Blurs
the line between truth and fiction to tell
a story of art bowed but not defeated by
the routine violence of Israeli occupation"
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"Like
the politics it discusses, it is resolutely,
and brilliantly, inconclusive"
- TIME OUT
"Compared
in some quarters to Pontecorvo's also pseudo-documentary
The Battle of Algiers, this is obviously
more compact and yet, in its necessary absence
of character development and visual brutality,
equally devastating in condemnation."
- BLUE JAI ARTS
"A
Palestinian film crew attempting to pass
a military checkpoint into Jerusalem encounters
firsthand the insidious nature of oppression
in the lyrical and unnerving faux documentary like twenty impossibles"
- NASHVILLE NEWS
"In
Jacir's Kiarostamian like twenty impossibles,
we are left with unnerving silence"
- THE VILLAGE VOICE
"A
Palestinian film crew attempting to pass
a military checkpoint into Jerusalem encounters
firsthand the insidious nature of oppression
in the lyrical and unnerving like twenty
impossibles"
- NASHVILLE NEWS
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