Israel: A Home Movie

Name: Israel: A Home Movie
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: July 10, 2013
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 63

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| Release Date: July 10, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: A collections of 8mm home movies, hundreds of boxes of film rolls from forgotten basements, locked drawers, damp crates, and attics, containing countless hours that tell the story of Israel from the beginning of the twentieth century.

Director: Eliav Lilti

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Frank Scheck

Jul 10, 2013

This striking cinematic collage provides a hauntingly personal perspective on a country that has been wracked by strife from its very beginnings. Read full review

Wes Greene

Jul 4, 2013

A prismatic meditation on an entire nation, Eliav Lilti's documentary is history as abstraction. Read full review

Rachel Saltz

Jul 10, 2013

These mostly silent home movies often have the tug of nostalgia, especially those that show domestic life... But images can be slippery, showing something different from what their creators intended. Even as Mr. Lilti constructs a history...he seems to show its fissures. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jul 10, 2013

Israel’s most interesting — and revealing — footage tends to be the most candid: beach-goers in the ’30s, scenes from family gatherings and celebrations, a coke-fueled celebrity wedding in the ’70s. The commentary gimmick justifies itself in these stretches. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jul 10, 2013

There’s a matter-of-factness to Israel: A Home Movie that’s disquieting, as it shows the joy and determination of a nation in the making, and the dismayed faces of those elbowed aside. Read full review

David Fear

Jul 9, 2013

What Lilti’s cinematic mural does is remind us that the political is always personal—and in Israel’s case, vise versa. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Jul 11, 2013

Ultimately, this film reveals the Israeli self-image, but not much more. The people with the cameras pass by Arab neighbors, and what the Palestinians’ home movies might look like remains unexplored. Read full review

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