Disengagement (2007)

Original title

Désengagement

Directed by

Amos Gitai

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel, Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

16

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to Europe to handle her recently deceased father's estate. She becomes entangled in the political tensions of the region and her own family's fractured history.

melancholiccontemplativetenseslow-burnintrospectiveunderstatedsomberunsettling

What happens

Disengagement (Désengagement) is a film directed by Amos Gitai, starring Juliette Binoche, with Jeanne Moreau in a supporting role. The film is a French/Italian/Israeli co-production, and was shot in France, Germany and Israel. It is the third film of Gitai's "Border" or "Frontier" trilogy. The singer Barbara Hendricks appears in the film in a small role, performing Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth. The film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot, where it won the Roberto Rossellini Award. The picture was then screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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