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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary In the middle of nowhere, Sebastien (Babluani), a 22-year-old man, is repairing the house of old Jean- François Godon (Passon). But the elderly man dies without having paid his employee. Sebastien finds an envelope belonging to Godon and containing a strange invitation: a ticket train and a hotel reservation. Sebastien decides to steal G...

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m

13 Tzameti

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary In the middle of nowhere, Sebastien (Babluani), a 22-year-old man, is repairing the house of old Jean- François Godon (Passon). But the elderly man dies without having paid his employee. Sebastien finds an envelope belonging to Godon and containing a strange invitation: a ticket train and a hotel reservation. Sebastien decides to steal G...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
16 Reviews
28% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
16 Reviews
28% Mixed
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100
The language and the landscape is French, but the sensibility and style is unmistakably Eastern European.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
75
Take 13 Tzameti for what it is: a tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
13 Ratings
18% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
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18% Mixed
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6% Negative
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75
Shot in neorealist black-and-white, it opens like a gritty slice of social drama, then takes a sharp turn into bleak, existential horror.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
70
Shot like the grunge version of a '50s noir thriller from France (or Soviet Georgia), the black-and-white 13 (Tzameti) turns into a shocker of Tarantino proportions in protracted sequences of explosive violence that leave viewers quaking.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
60
With its icy cynicism and desolate settings, the film evokes the work of the young Roman Polanski in his sadistic trickster mode.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
We are meant to think about a society that revels in this moral pit. But all that puzzled me was why an audience would need a film to immerse it in wanton, speciously motivated death when the television news provides so much of it every day.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
30
These actors move with the labored blocking of a high school play.
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Production Company Les Films de la Strada, Quasar Pictures, Solimane Productions, MK2 Productions, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Jul 28, 2006
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Transilvania International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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