With PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND opening Wednesday here is a repost of Peter Gutierrez's review of the film from the NYFF
You wouldn’t expect that a doc consisting mostly of video call footage would hold your interest, let alone be riveting, but in this case you’d be wrong. In this collection of conversations with photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, Sepideh Farsi turns what are common frustrations, such as dropped audio or lagging/freezing video, into moments in which human connection itself, or even life itself, seems to hang in the balance. Also, the stunning images by Hassouna, besieged in North Gaza, open up this unforgettable documentary in ways that are never less than powerful. But of course, I’m largely talking about form so far, not content—perhaps because the content, or rather context, is just too heartbreaking and deserves far more attention than can be provided in a mere capsule. Let’s just leave it at this, then: one of the top documentaries I’ve been lucky enough to see this or any other year. Highly recommended.
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