While documenting the downfall of a regime via the protest’s core viewfinder certainly provides for some raw nuggets of docu gold material, knowing that the conflict is forever-changing, constantly evolving and hard to summarize in two hours runtime meant that The Square, which favorably premiered at Sundance back in January, and then received an update/modes for it’s fall fest showings at TIFF and NYFF was a little like coming across a week-old newspaper which is why (via Scren Daily) Jehane Noujaim’s doc might play best via an on-demand route. Netflix just inked a deal that in my estimation is the ideal supporting venue for it. An early 2014 is being prepped.
Gist: The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster over the past two and a half years (2011 overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and the ousting in 2013 of Mohammed Morsi) through the news, we only get a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march. At the beginning of July 2013, we witnessed the second president deposed within the space of three years.
Worth Noting: This received the Documentary People’s Choice Award at TIFF.
Do We Care?: From the docu-filmmaker behind Startup.com and Control Room, The Square more or less whets the appetite on the Egyptian uprising.
