beneath average filmmaking with flaws all over the place, from storytelling via character design to pacing. a film that has a rough idea what it wants to be and goes nowhere with it. the biggest joke is on Cannes giving it the best directors award in un certain regard of all things. what a ridiculous tendency to show 'Palestinian cinema' as proof of a people's right to existence by factoring out the actual atrocity - as in "we got the news magazines for that matter", and "who wants to be confronted with the bloody reality in a beautiful place like a festival?" - while going into a wishful dream mode of a better world. classic behavior, you've seen this in the recent years as well when out of a sudden 'Ukrainian cinema' became a thing, although it never was before, trying to forcefully pushing films from a war-torn country into the limelight in a moment their film production technically stopped. we see this here again now, and I predict 'Taiwanese cinema' might be next. poses the question: what about films from Sudan, Kurdistan or the Congo?
