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Kadosh

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70
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Amos Gitai
Eliette Abecassis

Directed by: Amos Gitai

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 12, 2000
DVD: November 28, 2000

Running Time: 110 minutes, Color

Origin: Israel / France

Language(s): Hebrew (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not rated

Starring Yaƫl Abecassis, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Meital Barda, Yoram Hattab, and Sami Hori

The son of a rabbi is pressured to end his childless marriage, but his wife is still hopeful they can conceive. Her sister is enamored with a musician but betrothed to a scholar.

What The Critics Said

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83

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

An alternately angry and sad portrait, passionate in its presentation and moving in its portrayal of individuals who sacrifice their love for the tenets of their religion.

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80

TV Guide Ken Fox

The acting is uniformly superb, as is the rich, somber cinematography.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Raises fascinating question within a compelling narrative framework, and is also intriguing for the glimpse it provides into the inner workings of Orthodox Judaism.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.

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75

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.

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75

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

A wonderfully understated work offering insights to a world where no emotion is simple.

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75

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A very angry film.

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70

Village Voice Jessica Winter

One of Gitaï's greatest assets in Kadosh is such stillness, which leaves facile outsiders' judgment out of the frame and thereby deepens our immersion in the narrative.

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70

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

This unusually classical story from experimental Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai flows along, suffused in a quiet beauty flecked with sober foreboding.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.

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70

Film.com Tom Keogh

It is unusually but effectively organized as an almost unbroken chain of intimacies between the small and large players in this story.

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67

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

If it happens to lose you as you wander through this strange land, at least it does so to the accompaniment of captivating visuals and music.

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63

Miami Herald Marta Barber

It moves slowly, but you suspect that is the way of life in Mea Shearim, the closed quarters of a group that triggered Gitai's respect and our curiosity.

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60

Film.com John Hartl

Gitai, a veteran documentary director, refuses to find an easy resolution to the story, and that will frustrate as many people as it pleases.

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60

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

It's hard to tell whether these characters are meant to seem as staunchly symbolic as they do when they deliver some of the back-story-heavy dialogue.

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What Our Users Said

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