Feras Fayyad’s companion piece to his Oscar-nominated 'Last Men in Aleppo' follows a woman doctor in an underground hospital as she treats victims of the Syrian conflict.
As the Syrian conflict goes on, more and more stories emerge that are both horrific in their precise, up-close view of suffering and inspiring in their attention to humanitarians who are helping the victims of war. In, delivers an especially poignant, eye-opening addition to that list.
Fayyad and his cinematographers and editors wield the cameras and shape the scenes in the documentary so beautifully thatLast Men,The underground hospital was created after indiscriminate attacks kept damaging the above-ground hospitals in the town of Eastern Al Gouta. As the cameras travel thorough the dark tunnels into cramped treatment rooms, we see that the hospital is professionally equipped with incubators and operating equipment.
Amani and Salim get along, but her face falls in silent disappointment when he steps in here. We see how ingrained sexism is in the culture, and that resisting it is a daily challenge for her, no matter how well-meaning her supporters. When she talks on the phone to her family, her own father warns her that as a woman she will never get the professional respect she deserves.
All of this is caught with extraordinary visual grace. Unobtrusive when they need to be, the cameras also deliver moments of great flair. There are long tracking shots through the caves, as well as an exterior shot of the not-so-distant landscape as missile after missile lands, sending clouds of dust into the air. Another shot simply captures the still landscape with yellow dust hovering over it.
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