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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 fiIm from Israeli director Amos Gitai . "An existentiaI rather than a poIiticaI event" which focuses on the presence of the human spirit in war, Kippur is a gut wrenching journey through beautifuI landscapes ravaged by gunfire, expIoding mines, fear and desolation.
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 led 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 disIocation. Various scenes are awash in the surreal as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the bIades 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 senselessness of war and its assauIt 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, himseIf a participation in the conflict, and of the days that changed his life forever. |
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