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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 38 m
A Strange Course of Events

Summary Shaul (Ori Pfeffer) is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa one day for a reckoning with the father he has not seen in 5 years. But getting along with an hippie mother in-law with a penchant for New Age, a daughter on the verge of adolescence, and a father who's been converted to yog...

Directed By: Raphaël Nadjari

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Raphaël Nadjari

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 38 m

A Strange Course of Events

Metascore Generally Unfavorable
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Summary Shaul (Ori Pfeffer) is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa one day for a reckoning with the father he has not seen in 5 years. But getting along with an hippie mother in-law with a penchant for New Age, a daughter on the verge of adolescence, and a father who's been converted to yog...

Directed By: Raphaël Nadjari

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Raphaël Nadjari

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30
Feb 26, 2016
Mr. Nadjari, who wrote the screenplay with Geoffroy Grison, may have been intending a minimalist character study, but even so, he has abdicated his responsibility: Too much of this family drama is left to the audience to fill in.
By Daniel M. Gold FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 24, 2016
Too often the pic feels as if it’s killing time to pad itself out into feature length.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 24, 2016
A film about ordinary people doing nothing is a tricky thing, quickly numbing the audience to sleep unless the screenplay is electrifying and the actors greatly appealing. Unfortunately, neither of these is true of Rafael Nadjari’s A Strange Course of Events, which is anything but strange and eventful.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
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Feb 24, 2016
Its emotions prove curiously inconsistent, hinting at darkness but never committing fully.
By Abbey Bender FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Avenue B Productions, Transfax Film Productions, Laila Films, Vito Films
Release Date Feb 26, 2016
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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