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Chacun Son Cinéma
Middle-Eastern cinema seems to like mixing drama and documentaries. Chronicle of a Disappearance is a film by Elia Suleiman, a director who spent a long time in the USA but returned to Israel and Palestine to see how the identity of the Arab people in Israel was slowly eroding. He puts his camera on his family and friends and directs the film from his own persona. It's not a pure documentary though, some scenes and moments are clearly staged, but that makes it a little easier to watch, as the cinematography is pretty decent. Suleiman even adds some dry comedy in places, something I didn't expect. In the end, I didn't get a whole lot from this film. I'm not particularly interested in the Middle-Eastern region, and save some funny moments (like the tourist taking a pic of the two guys in front of their store) many of the scenes and sketches fell flat. Not to say it's a bad film, it's just not for me.Read all