Average Rating: 7.3/10
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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
Jun 20, 2007 Wide
Sep 11, 2007
Strand Releasing
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.
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.
Striking, deeply felt drama.
Delivers all the familiar pleasures of a based-on-a-true-story sports drama.
Top CriticFar from the uplifting sports pictures churned out by Disney, White Palms wallows instead in humiliation rituals, psychic scars and too much time-shifting.
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.
Szabolcs Hajdu's White Palms gives more pleasure than ... a three-ring circus ...
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.
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
'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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