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Chronicle of a Disappearance

1996 · 88 min

A quietly absurd, melancholic drift through disconnected moments that leaves you unsettled and thoughtful.

Overview
Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • politics
  • family
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Elia Suleiman
Written by
Elia Suleiman
Starring
Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman, Ali Suliman, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, Ula Tabari
Music
Abed Azrie
Cinematography
Marc-André Batigne
Runtime
88 min
Country
France, Germany, Israel, Palestinian Territory
Languages
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Russian

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