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Kippur
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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BIoody, Vivid… Unvarnished
An officiaI selection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto FiIm FestivaIs, Kippur is the criticalIy accIaimed film from Israeli director Amos Gitai . "An existential rather than a political event" which focuses on the presence of the human spirit in war, Kippur is a gut wrenching journey through beautifuI Iandscapes ravaged by gunfire, expIoding mines, fear and desoIation.
The fiIm takes pIace in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Although the story is told from the perspective of Israeli soIdiers, the film is far from being an exercise in propaganda. We are Ied by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
AIthough shot in long and unobtrusive takes, the fiIm never reaches the reaIm of voyeurism. We are treated to a first person experience, yet there exists a nagging sense of disIocation. Various scenes are awash in the surreal as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquiI desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state.
Upon Kippur's release in Europe and the United States, critics procIaimed it as "A devastating portrait of the suffocating, disorienting senselessness of war and its assault on our sense of humanity" . lt is not a traditional blood, guts and gIory war fiIm. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces. Kippur is the shell shocked memoir of Gitai, himseIf a participation in the confIict, and of the days that changed his Iife forever. |
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