Free Zone

Name: Free Zone
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 7, 2006
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 51

2006

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: April 7, 2006

Summary: Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)

Director: Amos Gitai

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 90 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Gitai's experimental technique in Free Zone is dizzying, sometimes thrilling. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Natalie Portman demonstrates tour de force weeping in the back of a taxi as an American searching for her roots in Israel. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Unfortunately, the characters feel more like symbols than people, despite strong performances, including what might be Portman's finest work to date. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Free Zone is similar to the car-based films of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami but with a more improvised, less-finished feel. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Oddly, in representing a private conflict as the microcosm of an unsolvable catastrophe, Free Zone only manages to miniaturize both. Read full review

Jack Mathews

The movie works best as a car's-eye travelogue of Jordan. And the three women might be good company on another, less stressful trip. Say to the Caribbean. Read full review

Duane Byrge

A road picture mired by unsteady camera work, lackadaisical pacing and cumbersome speechmaking, Free Zone is an excruciating cinematic trek. Israeli director Amos Gitai's narrative, both visually and conversationally, is a disappointing dud. Read full review

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