Sous Les Bombes (Under The Bombs)

What to say of a not very good film, set and acted around an enviroment where the cinematic medium can only be inadequate to marl the horror of hat has occured? It would feel like a disparagement of the conflict and suffering of Lebanon to immediately lay into this film without first giving a strong caveat; films such as this, almost documentary-standard naturalism in an ongoing situation that should be made plain to all corners of the world, must be continued to be made. We reviewed Je Veux Voir a while back and, though that film in form was just plain wierd, the gravity of what it depicted lent it the weight of authority. This film, a poorly made and directed piece, can't quite escape its inadequacies even with the backing it has. This should make us think not a jot less of Lebanon and what occured there.
It is, compared to Je Veux Voir, a more involving film of the actual violence, showing bombs actually dropped. The demolishings and rubble though are not shot with any sense of scale, the destruction of the landscape not well rendered. It seems pathetically petty to moan that, when we see a mother grieving the loss of her children, it is acted out in an univolving and unsympathetic manner, and thus loses impact. But it does.
The camerawork is straight out of first-year-film school, and though the acting is fine it adds little to a not particularly well-paced story. The ending is an interesting twist, but a bare summary of the plot should make it far more than merely 'interesting'.
What should one do if a bad film is made of the holocaust. Is it O.K. not feel involved or sympathetic to close-to-real-life depictions of human suffering? We don't know. We do kno that this is a bad film, and that what happened in Lebanon had precisely nothing to do with what some film reviewer made of Sous Les Bombes.