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Promised Lands

Promised Lands (1974)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 33% of users liked it
    (11 ratings)

Journalist Susan Sontag made this film as a photographic essay on the State of Israel and a recent war which took place there. In it, she meditates on the current (1974) situation of the country and its people and her feelings about Israel and its future. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Susan Sontag
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1974 Wide
On DVD
Feb 15, 2011
Zespol Filmowy "X"

Critic Reviews

  • Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

    Sontag's true talent was for the printed word; behind the camera, her limitations come more harshly to light.

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    The movie does not advertise its alliances, and Sontag's position is pretty thoroughly hidden in the folds of her imagery.

  • Sarah Boslaugh, Playback:stl

    ...a reminder of a time when a noted writer and intellectual was willing to take the risk of working in a medium in which she had no training and minimal experience...

  • Chris Barsanti, Filmcritic.com

    ...Sontag was enough of an artist to know that she was present in a crucible-moment, and that if she just pointed her camera in the right direction, history would do the rest.

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