Far from the uplifting sports pictures churned out by Disney, White Palms wallows instead in humiliation rituals, psychic scars and too much time-shifting.
White Palms (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 8
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Miklos Dongo is an Olympic gymnast whose career was ended by an injury. He comes to Canada to begin a new life as a coach. Miklos is assigned to train one of Canada’s most gifted young hopefuls.... Miklos Dongo is an Olympic gymnast whose career was ended by an injury. He comes to Canada to begin a new life as a coach. Miklos is assigned to train one of Canada’s most gifted young hopefuls. But the young man is vain and volatile and Miklos has difficulty establishing a rapport with him. Miklos comes to understand that if he is to establish a working relationship with the young man, he must overcome his own fears and confront his past, in which he suffered under the brutal training regimen of a diabolical coach. [More]
Starring: Zoltan Miklos Hajdu, Kyle Shewfelt, Gheorghe Dinica, Orion Radies
Starring: Zoltan Miklos Hajdu, Kyle Shewfelt, Gheorghe Dinica, Orion Radies
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Screenwriter: Szabolcs Hajdu
Producer: Ivan Angelusz, Peter Reich
Composer: Ferenc Darvas
Reviews for White Palms
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.
The term 'sports film' doesn't do justice to White Palms, a punishing, beautiful drama about a troubled 30-something Hungarian gymnast.
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.
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.
Szabolcs Hajdu's White Palms gives more pleasure than ... a three-ring circus ...
Delivers all the familiar pleasures of a based-on-a-true-story sports drama.
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.
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