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Kadosh
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Amos Gitai
Eliette Abecassis
Directed by: Amos Gitai
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 12, 2000
DVD: November 28, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: Israel / France
Language(s): Hebrew (with English subtitles)
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The acting is uniformly superb, as is the rich, somber cinematography.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
A wonderfully understated work offering insights to a world where no emotion is simple.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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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