Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Music Box Films | Release Date: February 13, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
90
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Universal acclaim based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 20, 2015
With Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem, siblings Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz prove that they rank with the finest filmmakers alive. Read full review
100
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 12, 2015
With her dramatically pale face framed by a voluptuous dark cloud of hair, Ms. Elkabetz is never more effective than when she’s holding still, her face so drained of emotion that it transforms into a screen within the screen on which another, indelibly private movie is playing. Read full review
100
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 10, 2015
The acting, especially from Menash Noy as an ineffectual attorney, is phenomenal, resulting in a feminist knockout told in inverse. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubKeith UhlichFeb 12, 2015
All the performers are superb, though as the title suggests, this is Viviane’s show, and Ronit makes for an exceptional martyr (she gets a Passion Of Joan Of Arc-worthy close-up or two) who never loses her very human shadings. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyFeb 12, 2015
The tragedy here is not a single story but that a process so inequitable and so inane continues in a place that is considered to be enlightened. Gett, in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 12, 2015
The brilliance of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is that, without a shift in tone, the film begins to seem like a tragedy populated by clowns, its males clinging to ancient laws to compensate for feebleness of character. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinFeb 10, 2015
It’s an altogether strange but astonishing work of craftsmanship. Read full review
90
VarietyJay WeissbergFeb 10, 2015
The beautifully modulated script, ripe with moments of liberating humor, builds to a crescendo of indignation, allowing Elkabetz several cathartic outbursts, but they’re no more riveting than the actress’ silences. Read full review
90
Village VoiceSimon AbramsFeb 10, 2015
Ronit's remarkable sensitivity makes Gett a tough but essential melodrama. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 18, 2015
Remarkably, the film is composed entirely of point-of-view shots. Although she’s in the room, Viviane is not even part of the image during the early minutes of the film. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 20, 2015
Elkabetz, alternately resigned and raging, stoic and sad, bitter humor in her eyes, is riveting. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem takes its time to unfold, but like its star, the film presents its case in powerful, persuasive ways. Read full review
88
Boston GlobePeter KeoughMar 19, 2015
As powerful as it is as social commentary, Gett triumphs most as an examination of human relationships. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMar 19, 2015
One of the best films of the year, Gett: the Trial of Viviane Amsalem is bound to be compared to the Oscar-winning Iranian drama “A Separation”; but if anything, Gett is an even more artful evocation of a bureaucratic nightmare. Read full review
88
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanFeb 26, 2015
Despite the seemingly uncinematic nature of this inert, even claustrophobic scenario, the film mesmerizes, utterly. Read full review
88
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeFeb 11, 2015
As Viviane, Elkabetz is fascinating, wielding an incredible variety of contemptuous looks. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianFeb 10, 2015
The courtroom's cramped, near-featureless air of bureaucratic stagnation becomes oppressive even for the audience, making it easy to identify with Viviane's growing hunger for freedom. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanMar 20, 2015
An unrelenting and important exposé of a system that, as depicted here, has no place in the modern world. Read full review
80
The DissolveNoel MurrayFeb 11, 2015
The Elkabetzes don’t need the audience to have any firsthand experience of what Viviane and Elisha are actually like at home. Gett works better if the viewer has to puzzle out the truth from testimony, asides, and outbursts. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreMay 13, 2015
The Kafkaesque nightmare a woman endures trying to get a divorce in a theocracy is played out, in sometimes comical/often excruciating detail in Gett: The Trail of Viviane Amsalem. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisFeb 26, 2015
As the title suggests, she might as well be on trial for her life. That’s the absurdist but eerily true premise behind this provocative Israeli feature film, which takes us to the world of the Jewish religious courts, a place where only rabbis can decree a divorce — and where husbands wield stupefying power. Read full review
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