The Eternal Dance
Hiam Abbass
Documentary | Palestine | 2004 | 26 min.
In her second film, The Eternal Dance, Palestinian Director Hiam Abbas, beautifully explores the excruciating pain of loosing a loved one. In this short piece, Said, seventy, desperately longs for his terminally ill wife even as he retreats in solitude and poetry. Despite his family?s attempts to console him, he withdraws from the world around him, a foreign country he can no longer relate to.
