Review of Under the Bombs (2007) by Mark L — 30 Jan 2009
A poignant and astonishingly confident piece of film-making, part road movie part documentary, set and actually filmed at the time of the 2006 bombing of Lebanon by Israel. Much of what we see is undoubtedly unscripted; few of the characters are actors; their grief, their stories of the wars and their political views are palpably realistic.
While by way of a soundtrack, radios and Tv sets perpetually bark the kind of casual body-count statistics which we're all familiar with in the west, we finally get to see precisely what they all mean.
An sometimes warm, occasionally very harrowing, often worrying anti-war film like no other.
This review of Under the Bombs (2007) was written by Mark L on 30 Jan 2009.
Under the Bombs has generally received positive reviews.
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