2007 · 2006-war · search · drama
Under the Bombs
Directed by Philippe Aractingi1h 38m2007
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Our read: Under the Bombs (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded 2006-war · search · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme 2006-war / search, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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