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Amos Gitai’s ‘Why War,’ Starring Irene Jacob and Mathieu Amalric, Debuts First Clip Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety has been given access to the first clip from 'Why War,' directed by Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai. The film has its world premiere at Venice.
It is also based on a work by Virginia Woolf, “Three Guineas,” in which she investigates the relationships of domination in sexuality, to which an essay by Susan Sontag, “Regarding the Pain of Others,” responds, and talks about the iconography of war. In a statement, Gitai says: “When the attack on October 7th occurred, I wanted to read and reread some texts to seek help and understand the roots of this human desire to engage in war and in killing. Gitai was in competition in Venice with “Berlin-Jerusalem” (1989), “Eden” (2001), “Alila” (2003), “Promised Land” (2004), “Ana Arabia” (2013), “Le dernier jour d’Yitzhak Rabin” (2015) and “Laila in Haifa” (2020).
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