Synopsis
Israeli documentarian Yoav Shamir's Checkpoint was a cinéma vérité-style exploration of the daily intractable confrontations between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian citizens at several border checkpoints. For Defamation, Shamir adopts a completely different filmmaking style. Defamation, which explores anti-Semitism, is a more personal "essay film," in the style of Michael Moore or Nick Broomfield. (The filmmaker has described it as "a personal journey.") Shamir dispenses with subjectivity, appearing on...more