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Kadosh
Kino International
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Yaël Abecassis,
Yussuf Abu-Warda,
Meital Barda,
Yoram Hattab,
and
Sami Hori
The son of a rabbi is pressured to end his childless marriage, but his wife is still hopeful they can conceive. Her sister is enamored with a musician but betrothed to a scholar.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Amos Gitai
Eliette Abecassis
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Amos Gitai
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 28, 2000
Theatrical: May 12, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Israel / France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Hebrew (with English subtitles) |
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83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
An alternately angry and sad portrait, passionate in its presentation and moving in its portrayal of individuals who sacrifice their love for the tenets of their religion.
80
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The acting is uniformly superb, as is the rich, somber cinematography.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Raises fascinating question within a compelling narrative framework, and is also intriguing for the glimpse it provides into the inner workings of Orthodox Judaism.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
75
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A wonderfully understated work offering insights to a world where no emotion is simple.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A very angry film.
70
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
One of Gitaï's greatest assets in Kadosh is such stillness, which leaves facile outsiders' judgment out of the frame and thereby deepens our immersion in the narrative.
70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
This unusually classical story from experimental Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai flows along, suffused in a quiet beauty flecked with sober foreboding.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.
70
Film.com
Tom Keogh
It is unusually but effectively organized as an almost unbroken chain of intimacies between the small and large players in this story.
67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
If it happens to lose you as you wander through this strange land, at least it does so to the accompaniment of captivating visuals and music.
63
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
It moves slowly, but you suspect that is the way of life in Mea Shearim, the closed quarters of a group that triggered Gitai's respect and our curiosity.
60
Film.com
John Hartl
Gitai, a veteran documentary director, refuses to find an easy resolution to the story, and that will frustrate as many people as it pleases.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
It's hard to tell whether these characters are meant to seem as staunchly symbolic as they do when they deliver some of the back-story-heavy dialogue.
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