Like Twenty Impossibles (2003)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 17 minuten
Alternative title: كأننا عشرون مستحيل
Country:
Palestine
Directed by: Annemarie Jacir
Stars: Reem Abu-Sbaih, Ismael Dabbag and Raja'i Khateeb
IMDb score:
6,7 (298)
Releasedate: 11 May 2003
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Like Twenty Impossibles plot
On their way to Jerusalem, a Palestinian film crew tries to avoid an unexpected checkpoint by taking a remote side road. Their plan fails and the decision unravels the political landscape and the squad is slowly torn apart by the everyday brutality of the military occupation. Their camera captures what happens.
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A Palestinian film crew is stopped as they take a shortcut to bypass an Israeli checkpoint. The Gaza Strip is a forbidden area for the Palestinian-American filmmaker and the Palestinian-Israeli sound engineer. It makes 'Like Twenty Impossibles' (2003) a film about the difficulties for Palestinians of other nationalities to gain access to the area where their origin lies. I do have a soft spot for the naturalistic approach of suggesting that a film crew is actually stopped there at a border control. Unfortunately, this distant setup never really makes you bond with the characters. They even seem a bit annoying and pushy. It doesn't help that 'Like Twenty Impossibles' (2003) ultimately degenerates into avant-garde film academy pretensions. It means a lot but emotionally it has little effect.
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