Director: Amos Gitaï
Script: Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme
Cinematographer: Laurent Brunet
Editing: Isabelle Ingold
Art Setting: Miguel Markin
Sound: Michel Kharat
Cast: Nathalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Uri Klausner, Makham Ouri
Production:
Agat Films & Cie
Distribution:
The Bureau Sales
3 passage Gustave le Peu
75 011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 40 33 33 80
[email protected]
www.thebureaufilms.com
Year: 2005
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 90 min,
O.V. English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with French Subtitles
Rebecca, a young American, who has been living in Jerusalem for several months, has just broken up with her fiancé. She gets into a taxi driven by Hanna, an Israeli woman. However, Hanna has to go into the Free Zone to pick up a huge sum of money owed to them by an American, her husband’s associate. Leila, a Palestinian woman, explains to them that the American is not there and the money has disappeared.
“Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo and Hiam Abbass have an argument in Amos Gitaï’s new film in three different languages, English, Arabic and Hebrew. These languages “contribute to this hybrid texture which is the primary matter of the film” says Amos Gitaï, the director.
“What is interesting in my character is what is unspoken… I like this kind of character who exists through her silences. As soon as you see her, you know that you’re not following the beaten track. She’s the incarnation of a type of human being different from the other two.” Hiam Abbass.
Shalini Agarwal
