"Featuring a virtuoso, disquietingly fey performance by Juliette Binoche."
Ronnie Scheib – Variety
"An unconventional yet always convincing performance by Juliette Binoche "
Mark Keizer – Boxoffice Magazine
"Gitaï proves once again his ability to recreate historical and social events with great skill."
Xavier Leherpeur – TéléCinéObs
Starring:
Juliette Binoche
Liron Levo
Jeanne Moreau
Hiam Abbass
Disengagement gives audiences a glimpse of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the prism of one character's unique experience.
Avignon, autumn 2005, Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her adoptive brother Uli (Liron Levo), an Israeli policeman, when their father dies. As Ana and Uli reminisce, laugh and argue about the past her deep disengagement from her life is revealed. When their father’s will is read it is revealed that a child Ana had abandoned as a teenager is living on a kibbutz in the occupied territories. She is the sole inheritor, but will only receive her inheritance if Ana travels to Gaza in person. Ana begins a physical and emotional journey that sees her arrive in Gaza just as the government enforced Israeli disengagement from the occupied territories begins. As the Israeli settlers are forced to disengage, Ana finally comes face-to-face with her past.
Disengagement was filmed on location in Avignon, Ashdod and Gaza and marks Juliette Binoche’s first collaboration with Amos Gitai. While Disengagement is clearly a film about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Gitai explores the issues from the point of view of specific people in precise circumstances. He skilfully illustrates the madness and unpredictability of the conflict by placing the unwittingly involved Ana at the heart of a situation which is out of her control and beyond her comprehension. Her heritage and culture are clearly at odds with the situation, yet she is implicated in it both as a witness and later as a protagonist in her own right.
Disengagement premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Roberto Rossellini Award.
Ana
Uli
Françoise
Barbara
Dana
Hiam
Tomer
Israel
Youssef
Yael Tidhar
Uri
Dani
Juliette Binoche
Liron Levo
Jeanne Moreau
Barbara Hendricks
Dana Ivgy
Hiam Abbass
Tomer Russo
Israel Katorza
Yussuf Abu-Warda
Roni Weissman
Uri Klauzner
Amos Gitai
Directed by
Screenplay by
Produced by
Original music by
Cinematography by
Film editing by
Casting by
Production design by
Costume design by
Amos Gitai
Amos Gitai
Marie-Jose Sanselme
Laurent Truchot
Amos Gitai
Simon Stockhausen
Christian Berger
Isabelle Ingold
Ilan Moscovitch
Emmanuel de Chauvigny
Tim Pannen
Eli Zioni
Moïra Douguet
Denis Gerault
First assistant director
Sound by
Sound editing by
Produced by
In association with
Corinne Le Hong
Michel Kharat
Nikolas Javelle
Agat Films & Cie
Agav Films
Agav Hafakot
Arte France Cinéma
Canal+
Coca Color
Eurimages Council of Europe
Pandora Filmproduktion
R&C Produzioni
a film by Amos Gitaï
2007
It's important to get different points
of view. If you only see one side of the story, you lose your humanity. Even though I understand that Israel had to do what it did to work toward peace, it's overwhelming to me. It gets to me."
The Associated Press - 29 March '07
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"Song of the Earth / Disengagement" by Simon Stockhausen
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