Review 50 Days in the Desert 2016 Movie

In the case of Knights, the most ambitious project to date for Belgian director Lafosse, that alchemy was fraught with a particular tension that some cast members embraced more readily than others. “It’s a good thing when the actors want to take my film hostage,” Lafosse says, although the evidence is that no one acted on that impulse. Central to the documentary is the idea of the filmmaker as manipulator — a role that Lafosse, in his hands-off way, savors. By film’s end, Maltese is left wondering whether his enlistment as chronicler was, in a sense, another piece of casting, and a part of Lafosse’s grander moviemaking scheme. ( Image Courtesy of Fabrizio Maltese )

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