In the middle of the Gulf War, on July 4, 1991, in a brasserie on Place de la Bastille in Paris, the pioneering critic and film buff of Cahiers du Cinéma, Serge Daney, and the Palestinian historian, writer, and director of the journal Palestinian Studies, Elias Sanbar, met to talk about images, art, and the possibility of a dialogue that transcends difference and conflict. The meeting was the idea of the two filmmakers in response to Daney's observation that dialogue, "a typically Franco-Arab art," no longer seemed possible between him and his Arab friends. Looking at each other's personal photographs, they confront their relationship to the images in an intimate and warm exchange.
Discussion with director Simone Bitton and Elias Sanbar.
- Duration: 48’
- Production year: 1991
- Country: FR
- Language: FR
International Film Festival Rotterdam - Official Selection
