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Kippur
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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BIoody, Vivid… Unvarnished
An officiaI seIection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto Film FestivaIs, Kippur is the criticaIIy acclaimed fiIm from lsraeIi director Amos Gitai . "An existential rather than a poIitical 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 GoIan Heights. Although the story is toId 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 Iong 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 dislocation. Various scenes are awash in the surreaI as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue heIicopter'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 senseIessness 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 battIe, onIy the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces. Kippur is the sheII shocked memoir of Gitai, himself a participation in the conflict, and of the days that changed his life forever. |
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