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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma. [Samuel Goldwyn Films]

Directed By: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon

Written By: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 35 m

The Farewell Party

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma. [Samuel Goldwyn Films]

Directed By: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon

Written By: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
71
85% Positive
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
71
85% Positive
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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90
Jun 11, 2015
It actually is quite funny. It is also warm and empathetic, though a viewer's reaction to the film might vary depending how they view the subject of assisted suicide.
By Randy Cordova FULL REVIEW
88
Jun 19, 2015
Funny, wry, tragic, and deeply moving.
By Tirdad Derakhshani FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 11, 2015
A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
75
May 19, 2015
The performers, working in Hebrew (with English subtitles), make their characters empathetic, emphatic, human and humane.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
May 19, 2015
[Depicts] the end of life not as an isolated horror (as in Michael Haneke's Amour) or as the contested site of legal and political factions, but as a complex social phase, its wobbly moral scale hinging on empathy.
By Abby Garnett FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 11, 2015
Despite its missteps, The Farewell Party feels special in the way it covers the Big Stuff — love, death, friendship, family — without losing its playful streak.
By Stephanie Merry FULL REVIEW
33
May 20, 2015
The Farewell Party leaves no doubt as to where it stands on the right to die with dignity when facing terminal illness, but it’s so clumsily made that it serves only to exasperate.
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Production Company Pie Films, 2-Team Productions, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, United King Films, Pallas Film
Release Date May 22, 2015
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.2teamproductions.com/en/
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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 4 Wins & 14 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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