Vodka Lemon

Name: Vodka Lemon
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 8, 2004
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: October 8, 2004

Summary: This portrait of an abandoned community in the snowy badlands of post soviet Armenia celebrates its quirky characters at the same time that it mourns their plight. (New Yorker Films)

Director: Hiner Saleem

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael Atkinson

Saleem, a Paris-based Kurd, displays the visual confidence and subtle screwball rhythms of a master, exploiting offscreen space, deadpan compositions, and deft visual backbeats, as well as attaining a breathtaking fidelity to real light and landscape. Read full review

A.O. Scott

The thicket of relationships that the director, Hiner Saleem, has created and weaves his cast and camera through is so invitingly hotblooded and crowded with hilariously melodramatic incident that the snowbanks are not nearly as forbidding as they initially seem. Read full review

Jonathan Curiel

Director Hiner Saleem has created a magical movie that veers, even within scenes, from love story to tragedy to comic relief. Read full review

Keith Phipps

A dark-humored film about devastation, which makes Vodka Lemon's final rush into comedy in the truest sense all the more refreshing. Even in the wasteland, there might be humor other than the gallows kind. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

An appealingly wry little film that is as appetizing as its title. Read full review

Ty Burr

This is frostbitten Fellini -- a film that finds fresh beauty and contentment in the wake of centuries of conquering armies. The great joke of Vodka Lemon is that the conquerors missed what was there all along. Read full review

David Chute

Exceedingly dry and precise and slow-paced comedy. Read full review

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