Napalm

"Napalm" is first-person filmmaking on a global scale.

Napalm feels like a missed opportunity to get much deeper under the skin of a nation that Lanzmann clearly knows better than most observers, and for whose citizens he feels more compassion and understanding than they are often granted.

A unique look at a place and people who we have mostly known through news reports or government propaganda, but rarely in movies through such a human point of view.

t's in the natty particulars and the way Lanzmann remembers them-slow, honest, sometimes arduous-that Napalm finds its value as a cultural document and political statement.