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Broken Wings (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:20
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: An accurate and compassionate rendering of an ordinary family in crisis.
Theatrical Release:Mar 12, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: The winner of nine prizes at the Israeli Academy Awards and a hit in its home country, the award-winning BROKEN WINGS is the extraordinarily moving story of the life and loves of the Ullman family,... [More]
Starring: Orly Zilberschatz-Banai, Maya Maron, Eliana Magon, Nitai Gvirtz
Director: Nir Bergman
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Reviews for Broken Wings
Top Critic[Bergman] draws fine performances from the actors.
05/14/04
Top CriticBroken Wings has heart and a poetic soul.
04/30/04
Top CriticWell-made, if rather predictable, new-age melodrama.
04/21/04
Top CriticWriter-director Bergman's debut doesn't have stylistic pizazz, and some of its scenes sag a little under the weight of mournful music. But the story is told with stirring simplicity that builds momentum.
04/21/04
Top CriticThe performances are uniformly strong.
04/15/04
Top CriticBroken Wings tells the kind of story that only a cinematic neophyte would find novel. But it tells that story with such emotional nuance, and with such fine performances, that it somehow feels fresh.
04/15/04
Top CriticWhile there's nothing ordinary about Bergman's accomplished family story, the line resonates with the director's own philosophy.
04/09/04
Top CriticThe excellence of the acting and Bergman's keen eye and ear make us hope for the family.
04/09/04
Top CriticA believable, tender story of how a terrible crisis can turn out to have a positive, transforming effect on a family as long as there is love.
04/08/04
Top CriticIt reminds us, after all, that throughout the world, all family feeling is local.
04/01/04
Top CriticBroken Wings is not a great film. But it's a good, solid one that should connect with intelligent audiences as strongly here as it did abroad.
04/01/04
Top CriticA sensitive and well-observed drama that, while not breaking new ground, marks its director-screenwriter as someone to watch.
03/26/04
Top CriticThis intimate, warmly made family portrait always feels true.
03/19/04
Top CriticIt sounds like a depressing little framework, but the actors give it life.
03/12/04
Top CriticGrief is never ordinary, so while the bereaved Israeli family at the center of first-time writer-director Nir Bergman's delicate tone poem may be unremarkable, their suffering is singular.
03/12/04
Top CriticNir Bergman's aching domestic drama concerns an Israeli family of five shattered by the recent death of the father.
03/11/04
Top CriticTouching, real and superbly acted.
03/11/04
Top CriticAn engrossing Israeli kitchen sink drama.
03/11/04
Top CriticAn affecting, character-based drama that ends not with tears, but on a note of optimism.
03/11/04
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