2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 19 m

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 19 m

Summary Inventing Our Life examines the 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement, one of the world's longest running and most successful experiments in pure communism. Recreating its glorious past and chronicling its recent decline, Inventing Our Life focuses on the heartbreak and hope of the modern kibbutz, as a new generation st...

Directed By: Toby Perl Freilich

Written By: Toby Perl Freilich

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 19 m

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 19 m

Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment

Name: Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2012-04-25
Duration: 1 min 19 s
Rating: 67

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Toby Perl Freilich

Written By: Toby Perl Freilich

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews

67% Positive
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NPR

Apr 27, 2012

Judged by the ideological terms on which it was founded, you could say the kibbutz experiment has failed. I, for one, could never have made a permanent home there. Yet the sense of community was real, and those cavernous dining halls supply some of the happiest memories of my youth.

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Christian Science Monitor

Apr 27, 2012

Freilich includes interviews with three generations of kibbutzniks and some fascinating historical footage going back to the 1920s.

By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

Variety

Apr 24, 2012

Toby Perl Freilich's thought-provoking documentary Inventing Our Life sketches the history of the radically socialist, more-than-100-year-old kibbutz movement.

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The New York Times

Apr 24, 2012

Inventing Our Life is a fascinating introduction to a movement scrambling to adjust enough to guarantee a future, without severing all ties to its principled past.

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Slant Magazine

Apr 25, 2012

While very informative, it doesn't work as an introduction to kibbutzim because it requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of the history of Israel.

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Village Voice

Apr 24, 2012

Worse, the film never challenges the traditional Zionist narrative of the kibbutzim developing an untamed land, paying only lip service to the fact that it was already inhabited before the Jewish settlers got there.

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Release Date Apr 25, 2012

Duration 1 h 19 m

Rating Not Rated

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