A Slim Peace
Director: Yael Luttwak
UK 2007 60 mins
Language: English/Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles
UK 2007 60 mins
Language: English/Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles
Fresh from a debut at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, this documentary by filmmaker Yael Luttwak is sure to get audiences here talking. Luttwak, a Jewish-American, set herself a bold and often thankless task, forming a weight-loss group in Jerusalem for women whose backgrounds cross the political spectrum: Palestinian, Bedouin and Jewish, including settlers.
Attempting to transcend politics by focusing on these women’s shared goals was never going to be straightforward, and personal bitterness inevitably encroaches on the hard-earned harmony of the group, but easing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through dieting was never quite the intention. Luttwak hopes to break through the layers of fear and misunderstanding isolating these women, while offering a much-needed reminder of the irrelevance of our Western obsession with body image. To see the group let down its guard, dancing together in a moment of fun - however temporary – makes a brighter future seem just that little bit closer.
Attempting to transcend politics by focusing on these women’s shared goals was never going to be straightforward, and personal bitterness inevitably encroaches on the hard-earned harmony of the group, but easing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through dieting was never quite the intention. Luttwak hopes to break through the layers of fear and misunderstanding isolating these women, while offering a much-needed reminder of the irrelevance of our Western obsession with body image. To see the group let down its guard, dancing together in a moment of fun - however temporary – makes a brighter future seem just that little bit closer.
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