Last Days in Jerusalem (2011) - Tawfik Abu Wael
When do you become an outsider in your own country? When you decide to leave, or only after you have taken the plunge, or never? And what if you don't leave after all? An interesting look at the Israel-Palestine situation via an Arab couple from Jerusalem on their way out of the country. The wall is everywhere in the background, but there is also a wall between them. On the surface, the film is about the couple, who keep separating from each other and keep coming back - not unlike some couple in some film by Michelangelo Antonioni. Deep within, it is also about separation from a country that is their homeland, but not quite theirs. It is not clear whether they belong together - neither the couple, nor them and the country they inhabit. And there are no solutions.
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