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13 Tzameti (2006)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:16
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.3/10
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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Reviews for 13 Tzameti
Top CriticEasier 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.
01/19/07
Top CriticA tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
01/19/07
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 Georgian-born French director Gela Babluani makes an absorbing debut with this black-and-white thriller.
10/13/06
Top CriticThe Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.
09/21/06
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 Critic[Babluani] creates a fear so bottomless, a bad dream so plausible that its hooks tear into your consciousness.
09/07/06
Top CriticThe film is exquisitely simple, and exceptionally tough, and its monochromatic visuals -- and cast of fascinating, hard-bitten faces -- make it impossible not to watch, even when events become close to unbearable.
09/01/06
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticDemands to be seen for the juice it manages to wring out of its central gambit but mostly for the directorial career it hints is on the horizon.
08/25/06
Top CriticGet the picture? I didnt.
08/23/06
Top Critic... little substance and lots of fashionable cynicism.
08/12/06
Top CriticAlthough it's likely too stark for everyone, 13 Tzameti offers a mind-blowing experience for anyone willing to go along for the ride.
08/10/06
Top CriticThat 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
Top CriticFrench 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 CriticYou can almost smell the nervous sweat running down these men's backs. You can almost feel the damp.
07/28/06
Top CriticStarts slowly but builds, Hitchcock-style, to a terrifying crescendo.
07/28/06
Top CriticThe resulting jolts add up to one unforgettably surreal nightmare.
07/28/06
Top Critic13 Tzameti flaunts a grim sense of the absurd that suggests a French new wave film infected with a virulent strain of Eastern European nihilism.
07/27/06
Top CriticLatest 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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