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09/23/06
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13 Tzameti (2006)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:53
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Twenty-two-year-old Sebastien (Georges Babluani) leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family constantly struggling to support them. While repairing the roof of a neighbor's house, he... [More]
Starring: George Babluani, Jean Pascal Bongard, Aurelien Recoing, Fred Ulysse
Director: Géla Babluani
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03/01/07
The first film by a 26-year-old director (Gela Babluani) that feels like the worst of what a 26-year-old director could make.
08/25/06
Get the picture? I didn’t.
08/23/06
Top CriticMeant more as perverse gimmicky entertainment than in telling anything meaningful about the human condition.
01/14/09
Outside the setup of its central stunt, it's pretty forgettable.
08/12/06
This is one independent hit that could probably benefit from big-budget studio treatment.
09/08/06
... little substance and lots of fashionable cynicism.
08/12/06
Top Critic13 (Tzameti) might seem allegorical, but it's too cynically concerned with what works as entertainment to offer larger truths about human existence.
09/08/06
Top CriticThe problem is, however, that it doesn't get to live in that world as successfully as one would hope, but instead is a common visitor with flashes of genius.
06/06/06
Aspires to the heights of a Jean-Pierre Melville or Fritz Lang but proves to be more along the mediocre lines of an M. Night Shyamalan.
03/20/06
French art thriller 13 Tzameti has a literal hair-trigger premise, yet it's so lacking in human dimensions that it creates virtually no suspense.
08/02/06
Top CriticIt may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
11/24/06
Top CriticThe Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.
09/21/06
...a tight, focussed suspense film...forcefully direct and simple...
08/10/06
"13 Tzameti" has you on the edge of your seat with a story that throws unexpected punches at every corner.
01/19/07
That calmness -- and the work of both Babluani brothers is weirdly stilled and mature, already devoid of the need to show off -- serves only to thicken the horror.
08/07/06
an impressively noirish moral fable that, for all its bleakness, offers ample rewards to those willing to take a chance on it.
07/02/07
Latest News for 13 Tzameti
January 14, 2009:
13 Is Chriqui's Lucky Number 
Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of "13," the "13 Tzameti" remake that also stars Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, 50 Cent, Ray Winstone, Ben Gazzara, and Alex Skarsgard. More...
October 21, 2008:
Statham and Rourke Starring in 13 Tzameti Remake
Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, and 50 Cent have signed on to star in Gela Babluani's "13," a remake of the director's own French-language film "13 Tzameti." More...
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