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White Palms (Feher Tenyer) (2006)

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
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An athlete recalls his troubled youth while helping to coach a talented but headstrong youngster in this drama from Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu. Miklos Dongo (Miklos Zoltan Hajdu) is a world class gymnast who competed in the Olympics before taking on his current career as a performer with Cirque du Soleil. Miklos has been hired to help coach some contenders for the Canadian Olympic team, and finds himself working with Kyle Manjak (Kyle Shewfelt), an unusually talented young man whose mood

Unrated, 1 hr. 43 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Szabolcs Hajdu

Sep 11, 2007

Strand Releasing

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All Critics (9) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1)

The term 'sports film' doesn't do justice to White Palms, a punishing, beautiful drama about a troubled 30-something Hungarian gymnast.

June 20, 2007 Comment
New York Times
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The more riveting, grim storyline ... is seen in flashback to the early 1980s, as tween Miklos lives like his parents' show pony in an anxiety nightmare of nonstop humiliation, heightened here through haunting soundscapes.

June 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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An uncommonly resonant sports drama in which a talented yet troubled gymnast comes to terms with a turbulent past, White Palms proves a distinctive and absorbing third feature by Szabolcs Hajdu.

June 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Striking, deeply felt drama.

November 9, 2006 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Delivers all the familiar pleasures of a based-on-a-true-story sports drama.

September 23, 2006 Comment
Globe and Mail
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Far from the uplifting sports pictures churned out by Disney, White Palms wallows instead in humiliation rituals, psychic scars and too much time-shifting.

June 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

A sneaky delight that glides effortlessly between the past and present without a single detour into either the uplifting clichés of American sports movies or the creepy voyeurism that sometimes attends films about young, well-built athletes.

June 20, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Szabolcs Hajdu's White Palms gives more pleasure than ... a three-ring circus ...

October 27, 2006 Full Review Source: JWR | Comment

An exhilarating, formally exciting sports drama as well as a telling look at North American society as experienced by someone who grew up behind the iron curtain.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: european-films.net | Comment
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Audience Reviews for White Palms (Feher Tenyer)

Otra película húngara en el Festival, y esta vez entraba a competición: se trata de Fehér tenyér, "palmas blancas", una historia de gimnastas masculinos. El director, Szabolcs Hajdu, sólo tiene 34 años, pero lleva actuando desde los 18 y dirigiendo desde los 25. Fehér tenyér es de hecho su tercer largometraje, y allí

January 2, 2007
Nasholi
Antonio Real Morillo

'Babel' - a masterpiece! Moving, amazing, so powerful! I love it!'Grbavica' - great, moving drama. Recommended! (Oscar nommination please)'Little Miss Sunshine' - I love it. So heart-warming and intelligent! The best funny-drama since 'Garden State'.'Requiem' - far far better then 'Exorcism of Emily Rose' - more mature

October 17, 2006
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