Rent Palestine 36 (2025)

Not engaged by this film - Palestine 36 review by SB

I felt that this was an important, and hopefully good film to watch. Regrettably it failed to hold my attention and I fell asleep. I tried watching it two further times, and there must be something particularly soporithic about this film, as it had the same effect on each of these attempts to rewatch it. However, I also watched the extra material on the disc, which was a conversation with the director and also with one of the male actors. I found these conversations far more engaging than the film itself, and they gave me a valuable insight into the background to the film, and what the film was trying to achieve and communicate to its audience.

I would give the film itself no more than two stars, but I would award 4 stars to the extra material which made sense of the whole thing. Hence, the overall average rating of 3 stars.