Monday, July 9 2007
Free Zone (2005)
After the initial early promise of its opening 15 minutes or so, the film resorts to spinning its wheels, then driving down dead-end alleys, and then plowing head-long into exactly the sort of heavy-handed didactic symbolism that gives me fits and has me reaching for the remote.
Tuesday, August 22 2006
The Syrian Bride (2006)
The Syrian Bride, like Walk on Water and the Oscar-nominated Paradise Now, is part of the optimistic Israeli New Wave in filmmaking, these days. And it's well worth watching.
Tuesday, May 9 2006
Free Zone (2005)
The first shot of Amos Gitai's new film is arresting. Natalie Portman cries for eight minutes.
