Persona Non Grata

Aroview: Dir. Stone's second documentary in a proposed trilogy about world leaders (after COMMANDANTE) has the frazzled American attempt to gain an interview with Yasser Arafat and throw some light on the intractable Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Traipsing around the region, he never quite manages to secure the prime interview, instead settling for discussions with various Israeli leaders, ordinary people, and most unexpectedly a group of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Although, as with his other works, Stone edits his footage into a thousand shards, this still manages to pin down the situation's stubborn resistance to any rational solution.