From a small hill in southern Israel, about an hour and a half south of Tel Aviv on the edge of the Negev desert, the political geography of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is apparent in one sweeping vista. Immediately ahead is the Mediterranean Sea, sometimes described as ”Israel’s only good border”.
It is the most sexually explicit art movie ever. But ‘the object of cinema is not sexual arousal’, says its director. So what is her intention, asks Linda Grant.