Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
First Run Features | Release Date: April 25, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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NPRElla TaylorApr 27, 2012
Judged by the ideological terms on which it was founded, you could say the kibbutz experiment has failed. I, for one, could never have made a permanent home there. Yet the sense of community was real, and those cavernous dining halls supply some of the happiest memories of my youth. Read full review
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Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 27, 2012
Freilich includes interviews with three generations of kibbutzniks and some fascinating historical footage going back to the 1920s. Read full review
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VarietyAlissa SimonApr 24, 2012
Toby Perl Freilich's thought-provoking documentary Inventing Our Life sketches the history of the radically socialist, more-than-100-year-old kibbutz movement. Read full review
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The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldApr 24, 2012
Inventing Our Life is a fascinating introduction to a movement scrambling to adjust enough to guarantee a future, without severing all ties to its principled past. Read full review
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Slant MagazineKalvin HenelyApr 25, 2012
While very informative, it doesn't work as an introduction to kibbutzim because it requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of the history of Israel. Read full review
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Village VoiceAndrew SchenkerApr 24, 2012
Worse, the film never challenges the traditional Zionist narrative of the kibbutzim developing an untamed land, paying only lip service to the fact that it was already inhabited before the Jewish settlers got there. Read full review
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