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Kippur
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Bloody, 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, exploding mines, fear and desolation.
The film takes place in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria Iaunched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Although the story is told from the perspective of lsraeIi 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.
Although 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 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 release in Europe and the United States, critics proclaimed it as "A devastating portrait of the suffocating, disorienting senseIessness of war and its assauIt 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 sheII shocked memoir of Gitai, himseIf a participation in the conflict, and of the days that changed his Iife forever. |
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