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The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)

An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid discovers that four of the passengers are actually members of the Palestine Liberation Organization traveling incognito. Startled by their discovery, the PLO cadre is forced to act. They take the passengers on board hostage and demand the release of 50 Palestinian activists held in Israeli jails. As Egyptian, American, Italian, and Palestinian authorities bicker over the best way to handle the situation (and who would negotiate with the terrorists), the kidnappers find themselves dealing with rebellion among their captives, and an argument between the four PLO members and Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American confined to a wheelchair, eventually escalates into violence.

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Mark Athitakis 17 Apr 2003

Woolcock mostly makes the film work visually -- she's excellent at the pointed close-up and frenzied camera movements.

Scott C 21 Nov 2008

The music is fantastic and the cast does a good job, but it suffers a little in translation to the screen. I've never seen it staged, so I have nothing to compare it to, but it seemed a little lackluster.

Arthur Lazere 17 Apr 2003

Uses the film medium to amplify the sense of the historic sweep of events and the tragedy of conflict amongst peoples for a safe haven on an ever shrinking, ever more contentious planet.

Joshua Kosman 31 Oct 2003

Sellars' original staging was a stylized, almost pageant-like affair, which allowed the creators to claim descent for the piece from Bach's Passions. Without that fig leaf, the ugliness at the heart of the work ... becomes all the more apparent.

Lee M 15 Jun 2008

If Gotz Friedrich set the archetype for how to film opera with "Salome," Penny Woolcock played against form and went documentary-style to great success, in this context of terrorism which most of us thankfully experience so far in the form of mere broadcast news.