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| | village voice > film > La Bûche; What's Cooking?; One Day in September by Amy Taubin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | It could be described as the most gripping political thriller to hit the big screen in many years, although given the events it depicts through interviews, photographs, and news footage, the words "gripping" and "thriller" have inappropriately frivolous and commercial associations. |
 | | In 1972, members of Black September, the Palestinian terrorist group, invaded the Israeli compound at the Munich Olympics, took 11 Israeli athletes and coaches hostage, and tried to negotiate for the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners, a demand the Israeli government refused to entertain. |
 | | The flaw of One Day in September is that while it goes to great lengths to give the Israeli athletes their full humanity through home movies and testimonies of friends and relatives, it gives no such attention to the terrorists nor to the history of Palestinian displacement. |
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