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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 58 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Adapted from the Tony Award-winning play of the same name, Oslo is based on a true story of negotiations between implacable enemies that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Directed By: Bartlett Sher
Written By: J.T. Rogers
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 58 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 58 m
Oslo
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6.3
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Summary Adapted from the Tony Award-winning play of the same name, Oslo is based on a true story of negotiations between implacable enemies that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Directed By: Bartlett Sher
Written By: J.T. Rogers
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
2 Reviews
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50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
An engrossing, unfailingly lucid account of a momentous political breakthrough that interrupted a decades-long impasse. Few will be unmoved by its sorrowful timeliness.
Directed by Bartlett Sher and adapted by the play's author J.T. Rogers, "Oslo" serves as a haunting portrayal of what was, and a sobering reflection on conditions as they currently exist.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.3
38% Positive
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5 Ratings
54% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.3
38% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
54% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
I spent 3 years on Capital Hill working on the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Many of is were.convinced the Oslo Accords were the last great hope for peace between the two peoples. Watching the movie I found myself weeping several times as I think would could have been. The movie itself is excellent, on point a d gets the passion a d different points of view perfectly. This film should be used in history class as a vital way of showing what could have neen.
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What results is a very Western-specific view of this conflict and of the Oslo Accords that doesn’t embody the “both sides” approach the film ostensibly intends to provide.
Rogers’ stage play is a smart, mature piece of writing, but one that transfers rather clumsily to the small screen, in part because its makers don’t show quite the same confidence in their audience’s intelligence.
Oslo ultimately acknowledges that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is anything but resolved, and shows why even this first, limited step toward settling it was so immensely difficult. Whether we’re in the mood to find it entertaining right now remains in dispute.
The timing of Oslo is less than ideal, current events being what they are. The framing, too, is blinkered and naïve.
A husband/wife team of Norwegian diplomats (Andrew Scott/Ruth Wilson) hosted secret back-channel negotiations between a small group of Israeli and Palestinian representatives that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords. This adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play has a solid theatrical structure with lots of small scenes, each with a conflict that must be resolved before the next one. Since it’s all talk, it’s vital to have a strong cast and this group succeeds in creating convincingly committed characters. The play’s director, Bartlett Sher, is at the film’s helm and he manages to make the dialogue and disagreements involving. Considering the subject matter, it’s a fascinating peek behind the (somewhat fictionalized) scene, but more as a historical curiosity than a stirring drama.
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(Mauro Lanari)
With the birth of hermeneutic philosophy in the last century (Gadamer, not Schleiermacher), it was debated whether we were granted the opportunity to dialogue / bargain / negotiate / understand each other or if we were condemned to polemical conflict. "Oslo" could have been a great example of this, whereas it leaves such an issue in the background, basically just on the credits.
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Plot builds on many innacuracies while inadvertently pushing for the dehumanization of one side at the expense of the other. It fails to push beyond shallow remarks and creates a remarkable detachment from reality.
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Production Company
Bold Films,
Dreamworks Pictures,
Location HQ,
Marc Platt Productions,
Pakt Media,
Stillking Films
Release Date May 29, 2021
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline How Do Enemies Find Common Ground?
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
