CRITIQUE – A gripping portrait of young Palestinians, this documentary suffers from a dubious political discourse.
These images were shot before the October 7thbefore all hell breaks loose Israel and the Gaza Strip. The director specifies this in a cardboard box at the end of the film, intended to illustrate the distress of the enclave’s population Palestinian enclave. Piero Usberti, a young Franco-Italian filmmaker, had the opportunity to spend three months there in 2018. What he saw there left a deep impression on him.
He observed daily life marked by power cuts and the fear of clashes with Israel, the impossibility of traveling, Islamist pressure from Hamas. The chronicle of a society suffocated in a territory 365 km long.2which has now been shattered.
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But to get to this portrait of Gazans, we have to go through an awkward preamble, to say the least. Piero Usberti, with the candor of a militant, embraces certain anti-Zionist theses, disregarding the complex history of Israel and Palestine. “ Israel is one of the most successful colonial enterprises…
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