Incitement

Name: Incitement
Genre: Thriller
Released: January 31, 2020
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio, Anat Ravnitzki, Daniella Kertesz, Dolev Ohana, Eldad Ben Tora

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: January 31, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio, Anat Ravnitzki, Daniella Kertesz, Dolev Ohana, Eldad Ben Tora, Gur Ya'ari, Raanan Paz, Sivan Mast, Yehuda Nahari, Yoav Levi

Summary: In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country's leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfullyIn September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country's leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfully - by the word of God - theirs. As the prospect of a peaceful compromise approaches, Amir turns from a hot-headed political activist to a dangerous extremist. Consumed by anger and delusions of grandeur, he recruits fighters and steals weapons to form an underground militia intent on killing Palestinians. After his longtime girlfriend leaves him, Amir becomes even more isolated, disillusioned, and bitter. He soon learns of an ancient Jewish law, the Law of the Pursuer, that he believes gives him the right to murder Yitzhak Rabin. Convinced he must stop the signing of the peace treaty in order to fulfil his destiny and bring salvation to his people, Amir's warped mind sees only one way forward.… Expand

Director: Yaron Zilberman

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 123 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 26, 2020

Movies about assassins (“Nine Hours to Rama,” “The Gandhi Murder”) rarely get this deeply into the life and conditions that inspire a political murder. “Incitement,” which swept last year’s Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel’s entry as “Best International Feature” for Hollywood’s Oscars, manages to be both thorough, damning and fraught throughout. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Jan 30, 2020

A rare look into the mind of an assassin, Incitement provokes and disturbs. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 30, 2020

Potently, Incitement depicts Amir as just one member of a self-reinforcing fringe. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Feb 6, 2020

A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion. Read full review

Pat Brown

Jan 30, 2020

Admirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Jan 31, 2020

The extreme, sharply divisive, partisan language might have seemed a world away to us if we had seen it 25 years ago. Now, it seems chillingly close. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Jan 30, 2020

While Incitement is a compelling watch, with archival footage neatly woven in, and offers a salutary warning about how easily democracies are endangered, this psychological profile of a political assassin nevertheless falls into a kind of moral trap. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Apr 25, 2020

This occasionally-thrilling, though often-overwrought and somewhat overlong film detailing the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as told from the viewpoint of his killer, baffles as much as it illuminates. With the exception of a handful of scenes in which assassinThis occasionally-thrilling, though often-overwrought and somewhat overlong film detailing the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as told from the viewpoint of his killer, baffles as much as it illuminates. With the exception of a handful of scenes in which assassin Yigal Amir is discouraged by family and friends for his views and plans, his actions otherwise are more glorified than condemned, while the right-wing nature of his politics (and his reasoning for shooting Rabin) is shrilled all out of proportion, almost to the point of sheer annoyance. Filmmaker Yaron Zilberman's treatment of the material is indeed odd, even if technically well orchestrated. But, despite this technical proficiency, one can't help but wonder what exactly the director was going for here -- or why there even needed to be a picture addressing this subject in this manner at this time. Quite a puzzle, to be sure.… Expand

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