Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Regelegorila4.0

Israël a tué l'actrice principale de ce film (cliquez ici pour la critique).J'ai vu Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk de Sepideh Farsi qui raconte l'histoire de ses entretiens avec Fatma, jeune photographe palestinienne coincée à Gaza.C'est 1h50 de discussions vidéo entremêlées des photos et chansons de Fatma. Elle raconte sa vie, ce qu'elle aime faire, comment ça se passe avec sa famille et la situation à Gaza post-7 octobre.Ce qui frappe dans le documentaire est le sourire permanent de Fatma pendant qu'elle raconte les événements les plus traumatisants possibles. Elle parle de ses proches tués, de la famine, de ses maladies et de la peur qu'elle subit à cause des bombardements israéliens.Même si le format du film est simple, il y a une belle idée de mise en scène à toujours filmer via le téléphone pour marquer une véritable distance entre Sepideh et Fatma, elles sont en contact mais la réalisatrice est impuissante. Elle peut s'absenter quelques secondes pour s'occuper de ses chats et voyager dans le monde entier pendant que Fatma va entendre des avions de chasse détruire sa ville. Elle utilise même les objets du quotidien pour faire un lien avec la souffrance des palestiniens.C'est filmé tel un journal vidéo dans lequel on voit progressivement la dégradation de Fatma mais jamais celle de son sourire alors que l'action est souvent interrompue par des missiles. Elle continue d'être optimiste, d'avoir des rêves, des envies de chocolat, de voyages et donne son avis sur tout ce qu'il se passe. Elle est à la fois journaliste et artiste car elle propage cette volonté de créer, d'animer, de divertir et d'aider les autres à mieux se sentir avec surtout les enfants qu'elle va nourrir pendant qu'elle s'abstient.Elle parlera de ce qui lui donne envie de continuer à se battre : sa foi, son optimisme inébranlable et son envie de rester sur sa terre.C'est un film difficile à regarder surtout lorsqu'on sait qu'elle aurait dû être présente à Cannes avant qu'Israël la tue elle et sa famille dans leur sommeil. C'est disponible en salles

Robert Daniels5.0

Rest in peace to Fatima Hassouna, her family and the many Palestinians who have died during the ongoing genocide.

Ghada Chaker2.0

ok so i hesitated to write this review because it's lowkey problematic to criticize a film documentary about a genocide SO to begin with i need to clarify a couple of things before you come at me (no one will read this): 1. i'm 1000000% pro palestine and ive always been and always will be, i was fully aware with the palestinian struggle since i was a kid so..2.i'm only critisizing the director because she was lowkey shit even tho she was good enough of a person to be interested in a palestinian life and try to make the world see and hear about Fatima's story so i appreciate that. BUT Sepideh PLEASE the majority of your questions were useless,very disappointing and frustrating, some even made me uncomfortable. You seem very detached from reality and the struggles of palestinians, you don't know much about the depth of the political issues there and it shows through your simple and silly questions like "how are you?" "where are you now?" everytime you talk to her, HOW DO YOU THINK FATIMA IS DOING... pls let's be real, you barely get to talk to her because of her poor connection and when you succeed in doing so you ask stupid questions or you even stay in an uncomfortable silence. There was so much you could get from Fatima, her experience her day to day life, her political views on Hamas or on what happened on October 7th, How do palestinians feel about that day? Do they believe it was a necessary thing so they could finally get closer to liberation and make the world know about their silenced struggle even tho it means half of them will be brutally killed by the israelis? or they would've preferred their oppressed but less deadly life that they had before that? How do they buy things if the cigarette's price is 50 dollars? Where do they get their money from? What about the blockade? What does justice or peace even look like to palestinians? ANYTHING. I don't give a fuck about your cats and you showing us everytime how you open the door for them WE DONT GIVE A SHIT.And then you insensitively talk about your great life out of the blue to Fatima; that you've been to this and that film festival in ITALY in CANADA in WHATEVER THE FUCK, that this morning you've been to the sea and that now you're enjoying your life in your little fucking great apartment. SHE DIDN'T ASK for those details and you know as much as everyone knows that she wishes she had your normal privileged life AND SHE SAID IT MULTIPLE times, it made me extremely uncomfortable while watching the film. Nice intention. Poor execution. Fatima deserved a stronger witness. With such rare access to someone living in Gaza under siege, there was an opportunity to explore survival, politics, economics, daily resilience and it got lost.Anyway Free Palestine