1
“The sound of explosives rattle in the background; clouds of thick grey smoke billow across the frame. The drone-mounted camera dives between the rubble, burrowing deep underground. It’s just about the most dramatic opening imaginable, displaying a showmanship that signposts a different film to the one that follows. Despite what this first shot might suggest, Feras Fayyad’s Syria-set The Cave is less interested in action than its aftermath, depicting the behind-the-scenes struggles of people caught within a war without a foreseeable end.”
Read full review of Feras Fayyad’s The Cave on Little White Lies