Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.
Our read · Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal comedy · drama · experimental entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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