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Disengagement / Désengagement
Series: Israel at 60 [May 28 - June 5]
Director: Amos Gitai, Release: 2007, Runtime: 116

"Clearly the work of a great filmmaker at the peak of his considerable powers...The latest in Gitai's pointed, funny and painful examinations of the upheavals that periodically shake Israel and create ripples that spread beyond her borders to Europe and the world." - George Robinson, The Jewish Week

The death of a father brings together his two long-separated children—Ana (Juliette Binoche), who has lived in France for many years, and her younger brother Uli (Liron Levo), who works in an Israeli police unit. Ana learns from her father's lawyer (a nice turn by Jeanne Moreau) that an inheritance has been left for Dana (Dana Ivgy), the daughter that Ana gave up for adoption. When Ana discovers that Dana is working as a schoolteacher in Gaza, she sets off to re-discover her once-abandoned child, while Uli returns home to participate in the clearing of the Gaza settlements. Passionate, controversial but never less than engaging, Disengagement offers a provocative meditation on the intersection of notions like nation and family in a world characterized by increasingly fluid identities.

Israel/France/Germany/Italy



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