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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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- 5 wins & 16 nominations total
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 Daily Human Tragedy
The woman leading the characters, a doctor from Quebec, Canada, is a sensitive, life- loving person, who has no prejudice, and develops friends on both sides of the Israeli- Palestinian border. The brutality of everyday life in this war zone, thus weighs heavily upon her psyche. She sees the people on both sides of the border, as valuable human beings, whereas most of those around her are tragically, held by fear and hatred towards the other side. This gives a fairly good view of the tense situation, that exists in this area and the life of little hope that exists, particularly in the "conquered" Arab region. It's a valuable look behind the superficiality of the media, towards this troubled land, through the eyes of someone with investment in both sides. This is cinema for grown-ups, where the "bang-bang" has real human consequences.
Good movie
This is a good movie, I love the person who can see something and live in both perspective like in this movie, but poor of drama
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
Details
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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