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- 2003
- R
- Virgil Films & Entertainment
- 1 h 42 m
- 2003
- R
- Virgil Films & Entertainment
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A story of doomed, passionate love and coming of age in troubled times The Holy Land explores the underbelly of real life in Jerusalem after the sun goes down and the tourists and Orthodox families go to sleep. (CAVU Pictures)
Directed By: Eitan Gorlin
Written By: Eitan Gorlin
- 2003
- R
- Virgil Films & Entertainment
- 1 h 42 m
- 2003
- R
- Virgil Films & Entertainment
- 1 h 42 m
The Holy Land
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Summary A story of doomed, passionate love and coming of age in troubled times The Holy Land explores the underbelly of real life in Jerusalem after the sun goes down and the tourists and Orthodox families go to sleep. (CAVU Pictures)
Directed By: Eitan Gorlin
Written By: Eitan Gorlin
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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52% Positive
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38% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
58
52% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
One of its great strengths lies in its surprising universality.
Masterly coming-of-age drama.
A former yeshiva student himself, Gorlin turns this tale of political intrigue and the search for divinity into an act of liberation -- if not outright defiance.
For all the film's flaws, it has a caustic, nondenominational view of apocalypses to come.
Fails to capture the anguish and struggles of an ultra-Orthodox Jew adapting to a more secular world as did Amos Gitai's Kadosh, a film this one sometimes brings to mind.
A barbed reflection on the great divide between secular and ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israeli culture. But its digressive screenplay lacks focus and momentum and is too oblique to connect many of the dots between its characters and their behavior.
The film's violent finale comes out of nowhere and will leave bewildered viewers wondering if they might have dozed off for a reel or two.
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