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- 2005
- PG
- Picturehouse
- 1 h 30 m
- 2005
- PG
- Picturehouse
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Director Gidi Dar's film, Ushpizin (roughly translated as "holy guests"), is a revelatory and humorous look at the daily lives of ultra-orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. (Picturehouse)
Directed By: Gidi Dar
Written By: Shuli Rand
- 2005
- PG
- Picturehouse
- 1 h 30 m
- 2005
- PG
- Picturehouse
- 1 h 30 m
Ushpizin
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Summary Director Gidi Dar's film, Ushpizin (roughly translated as "holy guests"), is a revelatory and humorous look at the daily lives of ultra-orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. (Picturehouse)
Directed By: Gidi Dar
Written By: Shuli Rand
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
70
84% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
16% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Does what the best movies can do: take viewers to what might be unfamiliar places, into a culture with unique customs and traditions, and show, through drama and comedy, how the fundamental truths of the human experience need no translation.
The Israeli comedy Ushpizin begins something like Guy Ritchie's "Snatch" and ends like the Coen brothers' "Raising Arizona" – in between it's a wholly original movie.
The new Israeli movie Ushpizin, a film about man's clumsiness and God's grace, is a touching and amusing tale that expands our horizon and also should open our hearts.
A good-hearted movie aimed at Orthodox Jews who don't normally go to the movies.
A gently humorous fable about the power of faith and the possibility of change, Ushpizin not only takes place in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, it was filmed with that media-shy group's cooperation and followed religious law at all times.
Stylistically Ushpizin belongs to a classic tradition of raucous Yiddish comedy that is easy to enjoy if taken lightly. At the same time, it sustains a double vision of ultra-Orthodox life.
An enjoyable seriocomic tale of a poor couple whose holiday-time miracle becomes a test of faith.
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Production Company
Eddie King Films
Release Date Oct 19, 2005
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline When you really need a miracle...
Website
http://www.ushpizin.com/
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Shanghai International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
