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- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 27 m
Summary Three dramatic encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their neighbors, colleagues, lovers and employees. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Dan Verete
Written By: Dan Verete
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2002
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 27 m
Asphalt Zahov
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Summary Three dramatic encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their neighbors, colleagues, lovers and employees. (Film Forum)
Directed By: Dan Verete
Written By: Dan Verete
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
60
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
With its remarkably intimate look at Israeli Bedouin culture, a subject heretofore little treated, Danny Verete's Yellow Asphalt is a deeply affecting and brutally uncompromising anthology of three unrelated stories.
More than the sum of its parts.
The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
So lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air.
Dryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs.
Though it's tempting to praise Verete for having the courage to show the worst of both worlds, only a propagandist could get away with being so reductive; an artist should be held to a higher standard.
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