The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope to continue shipping oil to the West, despite the despotic curbs imposed upon fuel shipments by their leaders.
Direction
Kramer's documentary-trained eye blurs fiction and revolutionary reality
Acting
Berto and Bauchau radiate exhausted idealism
Writing
Dialogue that trusts you to keep up, no hand-holding
Director
Robert Kramer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kramer made this after years documenting Vietnam War resistance; the paranoia is autobiographical.
Juliet Berto was Godard's muse before this; her energy here is deliberately drained, political burnout made physical.
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