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Antarctica (2007)

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50

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3

No consensus yet.

audience

38

liked it
Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 160

My Rating

Movie Info

Filmmaker Yair Hochner puts politics on the back burner to craft this upbeat comedy about the multitude of domestic and romantic issues faced by contemporary youth living in Tel Aviv. Omer is a homosexual young man with problems even most straight people can relate to: Omer is approaching 30, and still hasn't established his own identity, much less found the man of his dreams. Meanwhile, his heterosexual sister, Shirley, thinks she has found her ideal mate in hip café owner Michal, yet refuses

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Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Yair Hochner

Jun 15, 2010

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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (6)

It's fun to see attractive people get together and fall apart.

January 5, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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Ambition and a roomful of good-looking guys isn't quite enough.

December 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection.

November 28, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Hochner is terrific at staging intimate encounters, and he gets his story off to a lively start -- only to run out of ideas and momentum.

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
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This new Israeli sex romp is a better advertisement for the country than a tourist bureau could provide -- at least for gay travelers.

November 14, 2008
Hollywood Reporter
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Antarctica takes urban loneliness as its subject, but though all the characters are strikingly attractive, there's nothing frothy or pandering about Hochner's hermetic homosexual world.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Manages to combine sizzling sex scenes with an actual heart, putting all of the low-budget gay trash that American audiences must suffer through to shame.

December 3, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Press
New York Press

Amusingly makes the point that men can be rotten to each other like to women in so many heterosexual romantic comedies, but makes this point over and over again.

November 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com
Film-Forward.com

The dialogue is lame enough to make one think that the story exists only as an excuse for the sexual couplings.

November 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Compuserve
Compuserve

The good news is that, despite delivering the expected frosty alienation of its namesake, Antarctica features enough sweat-laden sex scenes to thaw three meandering romantic dramedies.

November 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Gay life in today's Tel Aviv is better presented cinematically by the work of Eytan Fox than in this overpopulated, callow effort.

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

It's smart and funny and stylish in a not too obvious way. In other words, it's a good movie, just because it's a good movie.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
Boxoffice Magazine

Audience Reviews for Antarctica

Lackluster and disappointing.
November 5, 2012
This is definitely one of the better Queer Films that I?ve seen in recent years. Despite being set in an enviously homosexuality-accepting Israel, this film portrays a rather Universal tale of Love and relationships between gay characters. A tale more engaging than some of the other Queer (or straight) romance flicks I?ve seen. This film is worth a watch if you are at all interested in Queer Cinema. Oh, and I
September 27, 2009
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