“The scene opens. A man stands over us, staring in our direction. He looks away and begins to speak. Next, another man sits in a chair next to him looking away from us, and he speaks, too. After several minutes, we cut to a woman. She sits silently, processing her situation and barely hiding her disdain. Finally, a shot of the woman from above: God’s eye looking down, omniscient and ambivalent. For the next 100 minutes of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, while the dialogue flows constantly, the camera does the most telling of all.”

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