There is a seasoned richness and vivid specificity to these lives, for all their hurts and losses.
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03/11/04
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Broken Wings (2004)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:61
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.3/10
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
Heartfelt acting and a sometimes tragic but ultimately life-affirming story make this an unusually touching Israeli production.
03/11/04
The power of the sensitive, clear-eyed Israeli drama Broken Wings lies in writer-director Nir Bergman's understanding of the tangible challenges of getting on with life following a death in the family.
03/10/04
Top CriticThis poignant, acutely observed movie is eloquent and suggestive in dramatizing a particular trauma in the context of an ordinary Haifa family.
03/09/04
Top CriticBleakness without relief.
03/08/04
Grieving families have been dealt with before in outstanding films like 'Moonlight Mile' and 'In the Bedroom,' but never with more unflinching realism than in 'Broken Wings.'
02/27/04
Suffers greatly because it is (a) too short ... and (b) hashes over material that has been covered many, many times before.
02/17/04
A wise and sensitive piece of filmmaking that heralds the arrival of a major new talent.
01/18/04
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10/24/03
A movie of small emotional gestures that add up to something almost overwhelming.
10/01/03
Bergman's script is full of symbolic objects and actions which define and link the characters.
09/03/03
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07/08/03
Approaching the family's unremarkable life with careful delicacy, Bergman extracts marvellous performances from his cast.
06/01/03
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