13 Tzameti (2006)
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: George Babluani, Jean Pascal Bongard, Aurelien Recoing, Fred Ulysse, Nicolas Pignon
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 13, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital - French
- Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
- Bonus Footage - SUNDAY'S GAME - Short Film
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette - 1. TESTIMONY OF A SURVIVOR
- 2. The DVD Design Contest - Top 13 Finalist
- Interview - Gela Babluani - Director; Georges Babluani - Star; Aurelien Recoing - Star
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Reviews
13 Tzameti does suffer from a weak and even lazy conclusion, but that doesn't stop 90 minutes that come before it. This truly is deserving of being unforgettable.
I knew nothing before I saw this film, except I heard it was intense (it is) and a little violent (also true). It's also well made, disturbing, and rather hard to forget.
an impressively noirish moral fable that, for all its bleakness, offers ample rewards to those willing to take a chance on it.
At its center is an astonishing set-piece that will rivet almost any moviegoer.
the most artsy spin on The Most Dangerous Game ever plunked down on the screen.
A gritty, high attrition-rate mindbender guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to its shocking finale.
Easier to admire than it is to sit through, the French film 13 (Tzameti) is an exercise in stylish depravity that may one day be viewed as the debut of a great filmmaker.
Comes off like a punch in the stomach. A terrific, focused first-effort by the Georgian emigre Gela Babluani.
A tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
"13 Tzameti" has you on the edge of your seat with a story that throws unexpected punches at every corner.
It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
A stylish and unnerving thriller that sucks you into surreal scenes of horror with the chilly confidence of a nightmare.
Takes awhile to establish where it's going, but it's powered by a kind of sick dread.
The Georgian-born French director Gela Babluani makes an absorbing debut with this black-and-white thriller.
Gela Babluani, according to the film's sparse press kit, is only 26 years old but already knows more about suspense than some filmmakers learn in a career.
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