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Dir: Jonathan Demme.
Cast: Jimmy Carter
Description: Portrait of the 83-year-old former American president as he tours the country during 2006 to promote his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Granted exclusive behind the scenes access to his subject, filmmaker Jonathan Demme contrasts Carter the family man, devoted to his wife Rosalyn for 60 years, with the politician and orator, who faces protests from pro-Israel demonstrators without breaking a sweat.
Country: US. 2007. 125mins
If awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger was beyond parody, giving the same prize to former President Jimmy Carter seems more justified. Here was, and is, a thoroughly good and decent man, as this documentary about him from Jonathan Demme shows.
It follows him, perhaps at rather too great a length, during his tour to support his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He puts Larry King right about the Israeli-Arab conflict, and deals with both foreign dignitaries and the press with an obstinacy that’s always polite.
The question of whether he was actually a good president is never really asked. But he does carry his own bags at the airport, stands in line for his tickets like everyone else, refuses private jets and only goes first class for security reasons. This is a man it is impossible not to like, even if you think he was a weakish one-term commander-in-chief. At least he was not Nixon or Bush Jr.
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