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Kippur

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): War
Written by:
Amos Gitai
Marie-Jose Sanselme
Directed by: Amos Gitai
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 3, 2000
DVD: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Israel
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Ran Klauzner, and Yoram Hattab
A look at the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Israel was attacked by Syria and Egypt on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Movie focuses on the fictionalized exploits of a small military unit assigned to remove the wounded from the Golan Heights combat areas.
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What The Critics Said
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LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly conceptual and stylized body of work, there are clear thematic continuities.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
TV Guide Ken Fox
Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Formally astute, visually arresting, and fearlessly horrifying.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Marta Barber
Shot mostly with a hand-held camera and in the gray hues you expect from the gruesome landscape, Kippur is highly sophisticated in its action scenes.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Both a blood-churning war movie and a mind-stirring antiwar movie, focusing not on guts and glory but on the stark realities of real battlefield experience.
Read Full Review >Variety David Stratton
A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Rather than heightening our sense of empathy, we become numbed by the repetition.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Undeniably powerful, grimly fascinating.
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
