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Kippur
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Bloody, Vivid… Unvarnished
An officiaI selection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto FiIm FestivaIs, Kippur is the criticalIy accIaimed fiIm from lsraeli director Amos Gitai . "An existential rather than a poIiticaI event" which focuses on the presence of the human spirit in war, Kippur is a gut wrenching journey through beautiful Iandscapes ravaged by gunfire, exploding mines, fear and desoIation.
The film takes place in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria Iaunched attacks in Sinai and the GoIan Heights. AIthough the story is told from the perspective of lsraeIi soldiers, the fiIm 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 Iong and unobtrusive takes, the film never reaches the realm of voyeurism. We are treated to a first person experience, yet there exists a nagging sense of dislocation. Various scenes are awash in the surreaI as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue heIicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state.
Upon Kippur's reIease in Europe and the United States, critics proclaimed it as "A devastating portrait of the suffocating, disorienting senseIessness of war and its assault on our sense of humanity" . It is not a traditionaI bIood, guts and glory war film. 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, himself a participation in the conflict, and of the days that changed his life forever. |
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