Chronicle of a Disappearance

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film Among the many unrelated scenes there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists a group of old women gossiping about their relatives and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate