Fratricide
Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: August 23, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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88
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The film's opening dedication to Pasolini acknowledges Arslan's debt to Neorealism, but the gritty, documentary style is offset by a charming bit of chalkboard animation that helps lighten the mood considerably. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Fierce and tragic tale of lost hope. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Fratricide marks Arslan as one of Europe's hottest young talents, drawing simultaneously on the film traditions of America, Western Europe and the Middle East. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Shot with such grit that the lenses seem coated with grease, Fratricide offers a myopic impression of an unnamed German city, and that's probably the point, since so much of its territory and opportunities are sealed off from these immigrant characters. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Nonprofessional actors and convincingly dingy details give Fratricide a harsh documentary quality, and its "Midnight Cowboy"-style ending is bitterly powerful. Devotees of seamy '70s cinema should give this little film a look. Read full review
70
VarietyJay Weissberg
A hard-hitting, ultimately tragic tale of the struggle for identity among Kurdish emigres in urban Germany. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEd Halter
A well-wrought, beautifully lensed but ultimately hopeless tale, Fratricide provides a less than optimistic allegory for the intractability of human conflicts: Even far away and decades later, old wars bring fresh miseries. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
While the boys' fates do seem a little too predestined, that may well be Arslan's intention. When you're idling in no man's land, it's all too easy to get uprooted. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Every so often, Mr. Arslan cuts to Kurdistan, where a group of women wander the barren landscape, a Greek chorus gone astray in a film gone amiss. Read full review
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