80
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Gitai uses fictionalized characters to dramatize historical reality, and while minimalist in its presentation, the film becomes nearly operatic in its intensity.
Kedma
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- Italy,
- Israel,
- France
- 2002
- · 100m
Director
Amos Gitai
Cast
Andrei Kashker,
Moni Moshonov,
Yussuf Abu-Warda,
Helena Yaralova,
Sendi Bar,
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Genre
War,
Drama
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
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75
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The drama makes up in intellectual weight what it sometimes lacks in psychological interest and cinematic realism.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Has the stilted, slightly surreal feel of a stage piece. Sometimes it works, but too often it doesn't.
40
Variety by Derek Elley
A largely dull history lesson…stripped of any backgrounding, peopled with archetypes rather than fully-drawn characters, and features self-consciously arty direction that gets in the way of story-telling.
30
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
Mesmerizingly bad filmmaking.
30
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
But for all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy
10
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
Kedma makes for a clumsy, lugubrious history lesson.
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