- Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Habib Hammoud, Majdi Machmouchi
- Directors: Maroun Bagdadi
- Writers: Maroun Bagdadi, Didier Decoin, Elias Khoury
- Producers: Enzo Giulioli, Eric Dussart, Fabienne Tsaļ, Hugues Nonn
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Nouveau
- VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CN8B
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,355 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:VHS Tape
The first 15 minutes is some of the best modern warfare footage I've
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
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2 reviews
Intense story of a hostage in Lebanon
26 Aug 2011
Format:VHS Tape
The first 15 minutes is some of the best modern warfare footage I've
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
Intense story of a hostage in Lebanon
26 Aug 2011
The first 15 minutes is some of the best modern warfare footage I've
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
seen, expertly showing the insanity of the war in Lebanon.
We follow a French photographer as he documents a war in which everyone
is turning on everyone. Then the photographer is kidnapped, and we
spend most of the film watching the horrors of life as a hostage.
Scene by scene it's beautifully done. His captors are a very varied
bunch, some sympathetic, some psychotic, although we never get to
really know any of them, and they do fall into 'types' a bit.
My biggest problem with the film was the lack of a bigger political
context. Unlike, for example, 'Four Days in September', we never really
understand what the captors want. For a while that Kafka-esque
confusion is interesting, but by the end, it makes the film seem a bit
limited in vision. The captors almost all seemed childlike, and not
very bright. There was a touch of what almost felt like racism, very
odd, considering the film-maker is himself Lebanese.
In the end, this was tense and exciting as a docudrama (it was based on
a real case), but by not having more scope, just missed the chance to
be a truly great film.
That said, it's well worth seeing, and I intend to re-visit it.
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