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5 Broken Cameras

2011

Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Documentary, Self: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat ...

7.7

1,073

Documentary A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'5 Broken Cameras' deserves to be appreciated for the lyrical delicacy of his voice and the precision of his eye"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"A touching and revelatory piece of film-making about the plights of real people living in an uncertain world. Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"The immediacy with which it bears witness to injustice is powerful and affecting, as are the images of joy he captures amid the burning olive trees"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"The result is uniquely powerful, putting faces and human consequences to a political dispute that seemingly will never end"	POS
United States	Ella Taylor Village Voice	"What makes '5 Broken Cameras' stand out is its insistence on nuance and its refusal to get caught up in the self-defeating war of words over who is the bigger victim"	POS
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"The film's sense of intimacy, its closeness to real people and painful events, allows it to reach a deeper place than more conventional pieces of political rhetoric"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"An undeniably powerful record of the Palestinian village of Bil'in's course of civil disobedience from 2005 to the present...the pic is also shamelessly sentimental and manipulative in its construction"	NEU

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