Hanna K.

This frustrating film from Constantin Costa-Gavras stars Jill Clayburgh as Hanna Kaufman, an American-Jewish lawyer who defends a young Palestinian, Selim Bakri (Mohamed Bakri), who sues Israel for the right to live on his ancestral land on the Left Bank. Josue Herzog (Gabriel Byrne), the arrogant young Israeli who represents the government in the case, is also the man whose child Hanna is bearing. When she and Selim also become lovers, politics and romance become painfully and inextricably linked for the idealistic American. Surprisingly, for a Costa-Gavras film, HANNA K.'s potential for political provocation is clouded by the script's contrived romantic flip-flop...