Why War

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Why War

2024

1h 27m

Drama

History

War

Comedy

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Inspired by a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, almost a century ago, WHY WAR is a fiction about war, or rather a fable with several characters in search of meaning in a visual poem.

Siddhant Adlakha

Variety

09/20/2024

If helplessness in the face of war is the movie’s default point of view, then it seldom struggles against those constraints, resulting in a work that says little with its words and images.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

09/01/2024

2/5

The results, alas, despite the best intentions, are scattershot, frustrating and not especially illuminating.

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Nicolás Medina

Peliplat

Dec 4

4/10

"Gitai falls short in his desire to turn his films into a much larger and more ambitious dialogue than the correspondence between the German physicist and the father of psychoanalysis." [Full review in Spanish]

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Andrew Murray

The Upcoming

09/17/2024

2/5

While Gitai’s essay-like approach...is conceptually rich, the execution is muddled and often too abstract in design to pin down what the filmmaker is trying to say.

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

09/01/2024

2.5/5

The problem is not precisely the quotes or the ideas, but rather that the whole, the mixture of so many diverse elements, appears arbitrary, capricious, and unconvincing in several sequences. [Full review in Spanish]

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Philip Bagnall

Loud and Clear Reviews

09/01/2024

2.5/5

It means well, and couldn’t be more timely, but that makes its inevitable failure to say anything new that bit more disappointing.

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Inspired by a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, almost a century ago, WHY WAR is a fiction about war, or rather a fable with several characters in search of meaning in a visual poem.

Director: Amos Gitai
Producer: Amos Gitai, Alex Iordachescu, Laurent Truchot, Shuki Friedman
Screenwriter: Amos Gitai
Production Co: Agav Films, Agav Hafakot, Elefant Films
Genre: Drama, History, War, Comedy
Original Language: French
Runtime: 1h 27m

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