Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
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  • Summary: Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh. (Balcony Releasing)… Expand

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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    A limited amount of original footage -- awkwardly enhanced with reenactments -- gives the film a somewhat narrow focus. But in a way, the dry tone fits.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    60
    Senesh was a budding writer, and her poems and diary entries add flavor to an already dramatic tale in Roberta Grossman's Blessed Is the Match.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    50
    Tells us just about everything we might want to know about her - except why she did what she did. That important information will have to wait for another film.
  4. NPR
    Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
    50
    The title is drawn from a verse Hannah wrote just before she was captured -- and that impulse is enough to sustain audience interest.

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