Poitras’s thoughtfully shot, distinctively scored, and disarmingly enlightening documentary – despite its horrible retitling for UK television – gently paints a portrait of Abu Jandal (aka Naseer Al-Bahri) a reformed jihadist who was one of Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguards for a number of years in the ‘90s, depicting his tender tutelage of his young son in the ways of Allah, and following him as he attempts to eke a living as a taxi driver in Yemen, all the while teasing out his blunted philosophy on the fight against the infidels, as well as following the trial of his borther-in-law, Salim Hamdan, at Guantanamo Bay. Iain.Stott
