‘Notturno’ Is A Meditative Look At Middle Eastern Conflict [Venice Review]
Composed of a series of striking tableaux, Gianfranco Rosi’s contemplative documentary, “Notturno,” mines the intergenerational conflict on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon. Cross-cutting between a number of disparate individuals, including the military, political dissidents, and ordinary citizens, Rosi’s film eschews any type of narrative cohesion, instead, presenting a series of unnamed individuals, going about their lives surrounded by the rubble and omnipresent gunfire that still plagues the region.