A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2013)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
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17-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives an e-mail response from a mysterious "Gazaman," a young Palestinian named Nam. Thus begins a turbulent but tender long-distance friendship between
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Cast
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Agathe Bonitzer
Tal -
Mahmoud Shalaby
Naim -
Riff Cohen
Effrat -
Hiam Abbass
Intessar -
Abraham Belaga
Eytan, Eytan Levine -
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Smadi Wolfman
Myriam -
Salim Daw
Ahmed -
Loai Nofi
Hakim -
François Loriquet
Thomas, Thomas Morin -
Hiam Abbas
Intessar -
Reef Cohen
Efrat
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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (4)
It raises the hope that someday, perhaps, there can be a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian minds.
Top CriticA gentle pairing of youthful idealism and tenacious hope.
What elevates [it] ... is the gentleness with which Binisti approaches his difficult subject.
Although smoothly directed, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea has little visual personality or dramatic urgency.
The film's notion that a little understanding and a lot of e-mailing would basically solve the Middle East crisis ... is as reductive as it is utopian.
The initially cynical Naim suggests Tal's project is insignificant, nothing but a bottle of hope bobbing about in a sea of enmity - and so too this film.
This is the story of people who dream big dreams and find a common understanding in the face of impossible difficulties. It's hard not to get behind that.
Yet another impressive dramatic take on the endless Middle East impasse and attendant violence.
A teenage immigrant from France living in Israel and a Palestinian youth try to break down the barriers that separate them.
The film obviously can't resolve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, but the resolution to the story's arc feels nonetheless forced and misplaced.
A Bottle In The Gaza Sea is a well-meaning but rather insistently earnest plea for mutual understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Foreign Titles
- A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Une bouteille a la mer) (DE)
- A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (UK)
