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- 2006
- Not Rated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Amos Gitai
Written By: Marie-Jose Sanselme, Amos Gitai
- 2006
- Not Rated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
Free Zone
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Summary Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Amos Gitai
Written By: Marie-Jose Sanselme, Amos Gitai
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A minor movie on a major subject, a drama with an almost unbearable lightness.
Amos Gitai's most satisfying pic since war drama "Kippur." Schematic set-up is given a human face by fine performances and a physical journey that's often more interesting than the characters' emotional ones, which are weakened by the Israeli auteur's tendency toward convenient doctrinaire-ism and chunks of expository dialogue.
Like a lot of Gitaï's films, Free Zone is part history, part allegory, and part art. Both the history and art hold their fascinations.
The three women deliver solid performances, but the film is diluted by the use of flashbacks superimposed over present-time scenes. The result is visual chaos.
If the strong performances of its three stars infuse this metaphorically clotted movie with some life, the screenplay (some of which was improvised) has a weak narrative pulse. This political essay posing as a movie makes the mistake of confusing longwinded storytelling with compelling drama.
A road picture mired by unsteady camera work, lackadaisical pacing and cumbersome speechmaking, Free Zone is an excruciating cinematic trek. Israeli director Amos Gitai's narrative, both visually and conversationally, is a disappointing dud.
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Production Company
Agav Films,
Agat Films & Cie,
Agav Hafakot,
Arte France Cinéma,
Artémis Productions,
Bac Films,
Canal+,
Cinéart,
Golem Distribución,
Hamon Productions,
Israeli Film Fund,
Reshet TV,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
TPS Star,
United King Films,
Yes-DBD Satellite Services,
The Royal Film Commission,
SCOPE Invest,
Scope Pictures,
Yisrael Esser Channel
Release Date Apr 7, 2006
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
