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Vodka Lemon

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Foreign
Written by:
Hiner Saleem
Lei Dinety
Pauline Gouzenne (adaptation)
Directed by: Hiner Saleem
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 8, 2004
DVD: December 20, 2005
Running Time: 84 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Italy / Switzerland / Armenia
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek, Armen Marutyan, and Astrik Avaguian
This portrait of an abandoned community in the snowy badlands of post soviet Armenia celebrates its quirky characters at the same time that it mourns their plight. (New Yorker Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Saleem, a Paris-based Kurd, displays the visual confidence and subtle screwball rhythms of a master, exploiting offscreen space, deadpan compositions, and deft visual backbeats, as well as attaining a breathtaking fidelity to real light and landscape.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Iraqi-Kurdish director-writer Hiner Saleem is in no hurry to tell the story, and viewers drawn in by the warm-hearted tale and charmingly eccentric characters will be in no hurry for the closing credits.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The thicket of relationships that the director, Hiner Saleem, has created and weaves his cast and camera through is so invitingly hotblooded and crowded with hilariously melodramatic incident that the snowbanks are not nearly as forbidding as they initially seem.
Read Full Review >Variety David Stratton
A little gem that takes a potentially grim subject and mines it for maximum humor and insight.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel
Director Hiner Saleem has created a magical movie that veers, even within scenes, from love story to tragedy to comic relief.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Marta Barber
A fresh breath of air, warmer than the icy village in which it takes place. You'll leave the theater with a wink and a smile.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An appealingly wry little film that is as appetizing as its title.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
A dark-humored film about devastation, which makes Vodka Lemon's final rush into comedy in the truest sense all the more refreshing. Even in the wasteland, there might be humor other than the gallows kind.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
As the picture winds on, the feeling grows that Saleem, who clearly knows these people, wants to show that their mode of life in this stark setting has, in a gentle way, a touch of the ridiculous.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The situation in these former republics may indeed be dire, but it's a breeding ground for exciting cinema.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Robert Dominguez
Saleem makes clever use of imagery, with the beautiful, snow-filled vistas representing his characters' personal and social isolation. But "Vodka" moves about as fast as the distant ice caps melt.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
This is frostbitten Fellini -- a film that finds fresh beauty and contentment in the wake of centuries of conquering armies. The great joke of Vodka Lemon is that the conquerors missed what was there all along.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Phil Hall
The film's leisurely pacing is often too slow for its own good, and many scenes meander endlessly with no true payoff.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
