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Cortile Cascino / Faces of Israel
Cortile Cascino was so far ahead of its time in its unflinching portrayal that the executives at NBC decided not to broadcast it. Directed by Michael Roemer and Robert M. Young, the film focuses on 23-year-old Angela Capra and her family, who live in a slum in Palermo. Animal slaughter, child labour, crippling poverty and prostitution characterise the daily lives of the people in this specific place, of which there are countless similar examples around the world. In 1966, shortly before the Six-Day War, Roemer documented a completely different everyday life in Israel through impressionistic images, such as the welcoming of new arrivals from many different Jewish diasporas at the port or life in the kibbutz. Faces of Israel is a poetic essay film reminiscent of Chris Marker’s lyrical and intellectual montage. (J.P.)