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Kippur (2000)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1

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Filmmaker Amos Gitai was a first-hand witness to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on Israel. This film examines the short but bloody conflict through the eyes of a student, Weinraub (Liron Levo). Weinraub and his friend Russo (Tomer Russo) have been instructed to join a special military unit on the Golan Heights shortly after the fighting begins, but in the confusion they are instead

Aug 28, 2001

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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (4) | DVD (3)

A patience-trying docudrama almost completely devoid of any trace of narrative structure or even defined characters.

May 12, 2001 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.

February 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Gitai plunges the viewer into the reality of modern warfare, in which the enemy is often invisible -- we never see the Syrians in Kippur -- and battle lines are often unclear.

February 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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The relentless attention to the sheer awfulness of war, which is the film's great strength, is also something of a shortcoming.

February 7, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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A near-masterpiece.

May 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

As bloody or breathtaking or heroic as these gussied-up Hollywood depictions of armed human conflict might try to be, none of them capture the true hellacious chaos of war like Israeli director Amos Gitai's Kippur.

September 30, 2002 Comment
Jam! Movies

Gitai's forceful direction realistically captures the chaos, dislocation and agony that the helicopter team witness and experience.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

It's as good a war film as I have ever seen, and that includes the gritty hard-nosed Sam Fuller's autobiography "The Big Red One."

January 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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all the more daring for its desire to convey its message without didacticism or even conventional methods of narrative.

November 22, 2001 Comment
Critical Eye

an uncompromising look at war... unglamorous, unromanticized, gritty and intimate

July 3, 2001 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
culturevulture.net

Throughout, and even in the end, we have no emotional involvement. We watch, shrug and walk away.

June 4, 2001 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Kippur

Ignore the usual comments regards to the flow of the film.It's sheer film-making at it's most possible and at it's most believable.The Israeli Platoon,too much dreadfulness and a few comrades who do the job.Is that all?Gitai locates the gene of good/evil inside the petrified eyes of his protagonists amidst trenches and

September 13, 2008
jimbotender
Dimitris Springer

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An Israeli film about the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Largely based on director Amos Gitai?s own experiences, it tell the story of a soldier placed in a chaotic environment, that?s about as much story as one will find here as this is a largely non-narrative film. Gitai often has long takes with minimal camera movement and

May 13, 2008
Dracula787
MJS MJS

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