Campfire

Name: Campfire
Genre: Drama
Released: September 9, 2005
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 51

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Film Movement | Release Date: September 9, 2005

Summary: This film tells the story of one woman's personal battle to gain acceptance within a religious community, while also offering a portrait of a political movement that has affected millions of lives in the Middle East. (Film Movement)

Director: Joseph Cedar

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 96 min

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Marta Barber

Campfire looks a bit drab, perhaps to show the dullness of Zionist life in the 1980s. But this doesn't take away from the poignancy of the film. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Coming at a time when the settlements on the Gaza Strip are being dismantled, Cedar's film offers a sly critique of their origins, and refreshingly different point of view. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

A good movie that could have been better, Joseph Cedar's sensitive Israeli drama falters when he trades sociological observations for political ones. Read full review

Stephen Holden

If Campfire is solidly acted, it is visually drab and has a haphazard narrative momentum. Read full review

Russell Edwards

Juggles several storylines that include the personal and political, but is unable to get beyond soap-opera shtick. Read full review

Akiva Gottlieb

The timelier elements of Campfire, which cleared house at Israel's Academy Awards this year, are too salient to dismiss. Read full review

Phil Hall

Typical of too many films produced in Israel: plodding, verbose, badly-made and completely monotonous. Read full review

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SheldonL.

Mar 30, 2006

Don't make too much of the political implications of the story's backdrop (the founding of anew settlement in Samaria), At heart, this is a a family drama that follows Rachel, a 42-year-old widow in the middle of mid-life crisis, and her two teenage daughters, focusing Don't make too much of the political implications of the story's backdrop (the founding of anew settlement in Samaria), At heart, this is a a family drama that follows Rachel, a 42-year-old widow in the middle of mid-life crisis, and her two teenage daughters, focusing particularly on the coming of age story of the younger one. The film effectively argues that ideology is a poor substitue for close interpersonal ties.… Expand

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