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  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary The year is 1977 and no female has ever been a renowned classical music composer. Sephi Milch, a very determined and talented young woman, aspires to a career as a classical composer, but she knows the odds are against her. In spite of this, she is dead set on changing the course of history and succeeding in the male-dominated classical ...

Directed By: Avi Nesher

Written By: Avi Nesher

  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m

Past Life

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary The year is 1977 and no female has ever been a renowned classical music composer. Sephi Milch, a very determined and talented young woman, aspires to a career as a classical composer, but she knows the odds are against her. In spite of this, she is dead set on changing the course of history and succeeding in the male-dominated classical ...

Directed By: Avi Nesher

Written By: Avi Nesher

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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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75
Jun 14, 2017
Despite some cumbersome moments, the film delivers a to-the-point message about how the sins of the parents can be visited on the children.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 2, 2017
This is a striking and thought-provoking picture.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 1, 2017
Uneven but ultimately effective, convincing in mood and emotion despite its melodramatic plotting, Avi Nesher's Past Life is straight-ahead filmmaking heightened by a connection to a pervasive Israeli reality not often found on film.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
63
May 29, 2017
Its improbable story gives breath to the burden of fate on those living with a past unreconciled.
By Peter Goldberg FULL REVIEW
60
May 31, 2017
Past Life does add up to more than the sum of its heavy-handed miscalculations.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 13, 2017
The narrative is tightly written, fast-paced and delivered with a scorching, emotional intensity by the actors. The timeline – which moves from the dank cellars of wartime Poland, to concert halls in 1970s Berlin and Sephi’s staid music academy in Jerusalem, is smoothly interwoven. Still, the drama seems overwrought at times, even cliché.
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Jun 15, 2017
Past Life is a family melodrama in the guise of a murder mystery. Strong performances and the shadow of the Holocaust lend the story poignancy.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Metro Communications, Artomas Communications, Ars Veritas Productions, Sunshine Films, United King Films, MiLa Media
Release Date Jun 2, 2017
Duration 1 h 49 m
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Tagline Their father survived World War II. But the unsettling truth about how will change their family forever.
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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 5 Nominations
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• 1 Nomination

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