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- 2012
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- Film Movement
- 1 h 26 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 26 m
Summary Maya Kenig's Off-White Lies tells the story of a father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Directed By: Maya Kenig
Written By: Dana Dimant, Maya Kenig
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 26 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 26 m
Off-White Lies
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Summary Maya Kenig's Off-White Lies tells the story of a father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Directed By: Maya Kenig
Written By: Dana Dimant, Maya Kenig
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
50
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Poised unwaveringly between gentle comedy and delicate drama, Maya Kenig's Off White Lies keeps a lot to itself. But this narrative withholding, while infuriating at times, presents no real barrier to our engagement with the film's unconventional look at the growing connection between a shy teenage girl and her shiftless father.
The winning performances by its two leads elevate this contrived Israeli import.
The performances are so uniformly good that it's a shame the characters are stuck with such a listless plot.
An intermittently engaging tale of father-and-daughter bonding (and non-bonding) set against the backdrop of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War.
Director Maya Kenig's film never decides whether it wants to be a social satire, a familial drama or a parable about Israeli life during perpetual wartime; that it neither picks a route nor cohesively combines any of those strands doesn't make a fairly generic father-daughter story any more colorful.
Elya Inbar is a surprisingly commanding screen presence, but she's contending with a screenplay plagued by contrivance--a battle few could win.
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Production Company
Gum Films,
KinoElektron,
Israel Film Fund,
Jerusalem Film and Television Fund,
Israeli Film Fund
Release Date Dec 7, 2012
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 7 Nominations
Annonay International Festival of First Films
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
