Napalm (film)

Napalm is a 2017 French documentary film written and directed by Claude Lanzmann. The film premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival[1] where it competed for the Golden Eye documentary prize.[2]

Napalm
Directed byClaude Lanzmann
Written byClaude Lanzmann
Produced byFrançois Margolin
Release date
Running time
74 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot

In 1958, five years after the end of the Korean War, Claude Lanzmann travels to North Korea with a delegation of French ministers to promote French culture in the country. There, upon arrival, he feels tired and is in need of vitamins, specifically - Vitamin B. And so, Kim Kum Sun, a nurse at the clinic who gave him this type of ejection falls in love with him. Six decades later, Lanzmann embarks to the country where he met his love.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 7 critics, with an average rating of 7.8/10.[3]

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "A unique look at a place and people who we have mostly known through news reports or government propaganda, but rarely in movies through such a human point of view".[4]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker called Napalm "[a] first-person filmmaking on a global scale".[5]

According to Jonathan Romney of Screen International, "[thje film] feels like a missed opportunity to get much deeper under the skin of a nation that Lanzmann clearly knows better than most observers, and for whose citizens he feels more compassion and understanding than they are often granted".[6]

References
  1. "Napalm". Cannes International Film Festival. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  2. "Claude Lanzmann obituary". The Guardian. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  3. "Napalmm". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  4. Mintzer, Jordan (21 May 2017). "'Napalm': Film Review - Cannes 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  5. Brody, Richard (13 November 2018). ""Napalm", Reviewed: Claude Lanzmann's Visit to North Korea". The New Yorker.
  6. Romney, Jonathan (21 May 2017). "'Napalm': Cannes Review". Screen International. Retrieved 6 November 2021.


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