Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at) (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
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A boy edging into his teens has to deal with his unstable mother and a commune full of eccentrics along with the typical dilemmas of growing up in this satirical comedy drama from Israel. In 1974, Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) is soon to turn 13 and lives with his mom Miri (Ronit Yudkevitch) at the Bet Gvurot Kibbutz, a progressive collective populated by people who take pride in their open-minded attitudes. However, they're not so easygoing when it comes to Miri; she's been sent to a mental hospital
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An appealing coming-of-age tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity.
Top CriticIf [director] Shaul means for his indictment to have some contemporary resonance, to hint at conformist pressures in the current Israeli state, he fails to give us any of the blocks needed to build that thesis.
This is a film from the heart, from a firsthand familiarity that yields conflicted emotions over the gap between an ideal and its realization.
A tendency toward broad novelistic storytelling... robs Sweet Mud of a focus.
If the film is an indictment of anything it is how the collective experience of the kibbutz is at odds with family loyalties.
Sweet Mud holds within its delicately wrought, keenly insightful grasp, the illuminating convergence of political reality and the individual in a personal struggle to transcend the constraints of the human condition.
As the story spirals tragically away--all the more powerfully because of Dvir's part in his mother's fate--it avoids the sacrificing-mother-redeemed-by-love cliche and gains a remarkable dramatic weight and urgency.
Sad, sweet and tragic.
... a richly complex tapestry of culture, idealism, love and freedom.
Sundance Jury Award Winner: Though grounded in a particular locale, Israeli kibbutz in 1974, this disturbing coming-of-age tale also serves as an allegory about the clash between "deviant" individuals and a system that emphasizes "health" and conformity
Subtly directed and flawlessly acted, Sweet Mud packs a genuine punch.
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Foreign Titles
- Sweet Mud - Im Himmel gefangen (DE)
- Adama, mon kibboutz (FR)
