Jehane Noujaim
Indistinct Chatter in Arabic: Jehane Noujaim’s The Square
By Michael Sicinski | 03/01/2014 | Cinema Scope Online, Currency
By Michael Sicinski When compared to its fellow Academy Award nominee The Act of Killing (2013), Joshua Oppenheimer’s supposedly radical examination of memory, myth, and representation in the construction of historical meaning, The Square probably comes across as reflecting a more conventional approach to documentary filmmaking. Its title, of course, refers to Tahrir Square, the…
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