
The film chronicles Israel's 43-year military legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The story unfolds through interviews with the architects of this legal system juxtaposed with historical footage showing the enactment of these laws upon the Palestinian population.... (Full plot summary below)
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The film chronicles Israel's 43-year military legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The story unfolds through interviews with the architects of this legal system juxtaposed with historical footage showing the enactment of these laws upon the Palestinian population.
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| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectA film that allows Israeli military judges to hang themselves on their own petards, men who might have sent a shiver down the spine of the Nazi architects of the Nuremberg Laws. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeThe Law in These Parts more than accomplishes its goal of provoking a discussion about imposing laws on people who have no say in making them. |
| Village VoiceMichelle OrangeDialectical and precise to the point of exhaustion, The Law in These Parts applies a cold anger to one of the geopolitical world's most passionate discords. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsThe Law in These Parts offers a series of historical anecdotes, memories that may or may not be wholly precise, framed by the filmmaker's commentary on the definitions of law, citizenship, and their effects on so-called realities. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranDirected by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz and winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this is the second superb Israeli documentary (after "The Gatekeepers") to come to town in less than a month and deal fearlessly with an aspect of that country's legal and political system. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisThis complex, fascinating documentary breaks new ground by focusing on the legal types who have administered, and justified, the occupation over the decades. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerAdopting a postmodern method quite different from that of his remarkable "The Inner Tour," Ra'anan Alexandrowicz poses his questions from a legal angle, and finds these minds stumped by a system they've professionally defended. |
| The NationStuart KlawansThe Law in These Parts is more slowly cumulative in its impact than The Gatekeepers, but equally devastating. |
| Time OutDavid FearJustice is blind - but there are cases where fingers start weighing down the scales. That's the j'accuse that Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's documentary puts forth regarding Israel's rule of law in its post-'67 occupied territories. |
| User Reviewubaid dAn unflinching look at how the Occupation's perverse legal system has wrought injustice on the people of Palestine and a dark shadow on the conscience of Israeli society. |