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It was with some hesitation that I watched the Israeli film, FOR MY FATHER, but, happily, it turns out to be one of the strongest and most uncompromising indictments of Israel's treatment of Palestinians. The recent criminal, fiendish and uncivilized blockade of Gaza becomes even more deplorable after viewing this remarkable film, one which must have put screen writer and director in jeopardy in
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Village Voice
While films like "The Band's Visit," "Jellyfish," and "Waltz With Bashir" suggest a subtler, more psychologically directed path for Israeli film, Dror Zahavi's For My Father is old-school social melodrama (plus bombs), all the way. Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis
The New York Times
Well-intentioned but philosophically timid, For My Father wants to meditate on the moral reshuffling that can accompany imminent death. But the director, Dror Zahavi, is ill served by a screenplay (by Ido Dror and Jonatan Dror) too attracted to coincidence and too repelled by the existential brink. Full Review
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
The movie takes a completely apolitical look at the lives of its three main characters, focusing not on their differences but on how, in a way, they are trapped by their cultures. Full Review
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
Israeli helmer Dror Sahavi's well-meaning but simplistic terrorist melodrama, gingerly counterbalancing religious fanatics on either side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, utilizes a lyrical "Romeo and Juliet"-type encounter between a reluctant suicide bomber and a Jewish escapee from Orthodox closed-mindedness to plead mutual tolerance. Full Review
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
The Israeli feature For My Father is a rarity indeed: A sweet, sentimental movie about a suicide bomber. Full Review
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