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A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
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Sivan Levy Zakin
- Ava
- (as Sivan Levy)
Yousef 'Joe' Sweid
- Faysal
- (as Yousef Sweid)
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Powerful locations
Chloé (Evelyne Brochu) is a Quebecois doctor working to serve the Palestinian people. She travels in and out of the territories. She makes friends with Rand (Sabrina Ouazani) a pregnant Palestinian girl, and Ava (Sivan Levy) an Israeli soldier.
She tries to be a detached worker at first. As her relationships grow deeper, the suffering in the territories start to cause her emotional pain. Pain that she keeps under control until one incident at a checkpoint. They filmed this right on some of the real locations. That made this instantly compelling. The everyday existence do slow the movie down. However it does slowly change Chloé's viewpoint. The ending is a little too abrupt. Her final change over need more than one cause. Maybe there could be more about her life at home before coming over.
She tries to be a detached worker at first. As her relationships grow deeper, the suffering in the territories start to cause her emotional pain. Pain that she keeps under control until one incident at a checkpoint. They filmed this right on some of the real locations. That made this instantly compelling. The everyday existence do slow the movie down. However it does slowly change Chloé's viewpoint. The ending is a little too abrupt. Her final change over need more than one cause. Maybe there could be more about her life at home before coming over.
A white coat alone does not a doctor make!
This powerful film is good, haunting, disturbing. But the Chloe character is fake, in- authentic and sad. Putting a white coat on a character does not make them a physician. Chloe as played is weak. There comes with education and experience in medicine an authority that is entirely lacking in this Chloe. This woman does not convey comfort with the bodies of the women she serves? Nor does she talk to them as if she has their best interests at heart. She repeatedly shuffles them in and out of clinics as if they are cattle, not humans.
A physician in her place would be a passionate advocate for all life; she would be a feminist. She would fight for life. But in the scenes wherein a child and baby die in her presence there is no attempt to save a life. She even states "I have blood on my shoes". Not: " I have blood on my hands". She lets a baby die without any attempt to breathe life into it.
Bizarre especially given the choice she makes by the end to truly have blood on her hands.
I went to the movie to see the choice a physician has made in extreme circumstances, but was met with a character that in no way understood or lived as a physician. Such a sad failure for a movie that could shock if written and acted as the story demanded
A physician in her place would be a passionate advocate for all life; she would be a feminist. She would fight for life. But in the scenes wherein a child and baby die in her presence there is no attempt to save a life. She even states "I have blood on my shoes". Not: " I have blood on my hands". She lets a baby die without any attempt to breathe life into it.
Bizarre especially given the choice she makes by the end to truly have blood on her hands.
I went to the movie to see the choice a physician has made in extreme circumstances, but was met with a character that in no way understood or lived as a physician. Such a sad failure for a movie that could shock if written and acted as the story demanded
An incredible emotional journey that everyone should experience.
This was an amazing film!! it actually didn't seem that i was watching a film, but that i was eavesdropping on a woman's life with her friends and her experiences working in Gaza but living in Israel. The normality of taking a bus and clubbing in juxtaposition to the reality in Gaza is breathtaking. How fast the family in Gaza disintegrated through the deaths of loved ones was heartbreaking. The loss of the doctor's innocence and how her world will change forever. One of the other reviewers has clearly not lost a child, a woman who does will say anything through her pain. The film was emotionally draining because it had it all. i give it a 9, and in my books few movies deserve that!
Very good movie
I watched it this evening in Montreal. The story describes how a Canadian humanitarian doctor tries to reconcile her life in both sides of the border between Israel and Palestine. The scenario is very good. Events occur smoothly in a straight forward way. The performance of Evelyne Brochu (the humanitarian doctor in the movie) is perfect. She was able to transmit the emotions experienced by the character in a powerful way. I liked the non judging aspect of the movie. On can see both sides as victims in certain way. My overall experience was very good. Both the actress "Evelyne Brochu" and the director "Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette" gonna be in my watch list from now on.
my notes
A moving story that shows some of the travesty that is allowed to happen there. also surprisingly seems to side with the Palestinians (1 viewing)
Did you know
- GoofsChloe is seen participating in a funeral procession for a martyr (a boy killed by the Israelis). The boy is in a coffin, which is incorrect - martyrs are buried in a shroud, without a coffin. In addition, in Muslim societies in the Middle East, women would generally not participate in a funeral procession - though since Chloe is a foreigner she may get away with it.
- SoundtracksNew York Nights
Written by Barrie Gledden, Steve Dymond and Jason Pedder
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,840
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,391
- Aug 18, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $317,656
- Runtime
- 1h 42m(102 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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