Nina's Tragedies (2003)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 12
Modern Israeli life is put under the microscope in this well-acted, if contrived, tale by director Savi Gabizon.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 4
Modern Israeli life is put under the microscope in this well-acted, if contrived, tale by director Savi Gabizon.
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Israeli filmmaker Savi Gabizon directs the tragi-comic drama Ha-Asonot Shel Nina, also released as Nina's Tragedies (A Very Sad Comedy). Teenaged boy Nadav (Aviv Elkabeth) is secretly in love with his beautiful Aunt Nina (Ayelet Zurer). When her husband dies and his parents get divorced, Nadav is more than willing to go live with her. However, many strange things start to happen just after he arrives. Nadav's estranged father (Yoram Hattab) suddenly wants to reconnect with him after many years.
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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (13) | DVD (1)
The dry humor is disarming. The ensemble cast is engaging and interesting to watch. And the main plot, as it were (will Nadav and Nina find respective happiness?), is suspenseful.
Top CriticA gently quirky, touching comedy from Israel about a young boy's infatuation with his aunt.
Nina's Tragedies is full of gentle, labyrinthian turns, sly and sweet.
Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments.
It's well acted, and well written, but it rarely delivers the emotional resonance you keep expecting.
The chief problem with this exasperating and shamelessly contrived award-winning Israeli movie: It doesn't know when to stop telling and start showing.
A dark, morose, confusing hodgepodge of uninteresting and unbelievable characters.
Ayelet Zorer gives Nina grace, sexiness and a real personality. She's someone you'd want to see a movie about, though maybe you'd wish the movie were a little more polished than this one.
Israeli society is one that has ample experience processing grief, and Nina's Tragedies explores that challenge with humanity and humor.
Passing eccentricities of character, but serious trouble staging honest and coherent emotional scenes....a surplus of preciousness and a deficit of truth-ringing reality.
The comedy is feather-light and the emotions are drawn on situation, rather than on genuine involvement with substantively developed characters.
A humorous warts-and-all portrayal of a family.
Gavison's whimsical and melancholy tragicomedy keeps the Israeli-Arab conflict in the background.
A richly evoked family drama.
A sad little comedy with enough surprises to keep the viewer guessing, and fine performances by all.
A film about the whole panoply of life and love and death, blah blah blah.
You want to get caught up in Nadav's world and ride his emotional roller coaster, but the movie keeps you at a distance (like watching through a window).
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[font=Century Gothic][color=#008080]There is nothing in "Nina's Tragedies" that we have not seen before. (Especially when you compare it to last year's "Broken Wings", also from Israel.) The framing device takes over a movie that should be about the grieving process of the title character. The most memorable parts of the movie involve such tiny details as a wobbly wheel and tracheotomy patients. This is a movie that wants to come to a tidy conclusion for all of its characters. On the plus side, Ayelet Zurer, as the eponymous lead character, is very good. [/color][/font]
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