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Yellow Asphalt
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Foreign
Written by: Dan Verete
Directed by: Dan Verete
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 13, 2002
DVD: June 21, 2005
Running Time: 87 minutes, Color
Origin: Israel
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Sami Samir, Tatjana Blacher, Raida Adon, Motti Katz, and Moshe Ivgi
Three dramatic encounters between modern-day Israelis and the Bedouin people who are their neighbors, colleagues, lovers and employees. (Film Forum)
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What The Critics Said
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Boston Globe Loren King
It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
Read Full Review >Variety Lael Lowenstein
With its remarkably intimate look at Israeli Bedouin culture, a subject heretofore little treated, Danny Verete's Yellow Asphalt is a deeply affecting and brutally uncompromising anthology of three unrelated stories.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
These three films form a remarkably cohesive whole, both visually and thematically, through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Turner
So lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Though it's tempting to praise Verete for having the courage to show the worst of both worlds, only a propagandist could get away with being so reductive; an artist should be held to a higher standard.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Dryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
ayala gave it a10:
Great film, shocking!!
Yoon Cho gave it a 9:
This movie tells three stories about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. We often hear of the violence in the news but this movie humanizes what to most of is simply a political story. The first story involves a Israeli truck driver who accidentally runs over a Palestinian youth. Violence is averted when Israeli offers a spare tire as compensation for the dead boy. It's a double-edged criticism of both sides: Palestinians may seem inhuman to accept the tire but maybe that's the best they can hope for in terms of justice. In the second story, a Palestinian woman tries to escape from her fundamentalist Islamic husband who, in her flashback, had once been a modern, westernized man but who may have turned to radical Islam for personal or nationalistic reasons. Unable to cope as a virtual slave in male dominated society she desperately tries to find freedom. This segment is least ambiguous and is a direct and justified condemnation of certain aspects of Islamic values. The third segment which is the longest and by far the best, deals with an Israeli farmer who has a dalliance with an Arab servant girl, accidentally kills her, and then pressures his male Arab employee to hide the body. When the body is found, suspicions grow and the story develops into a penetrating study of relationships based on unequal power, tribal bloodoath, and suppressed but seething ethnic hatred. Unforgettable and truly illuminating study of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A must-see for anyone who only knows of the Israeli conflict thru the news of bombings and other forms of violence.
