Past Life

Name: Past Life
Genre: Drama
Released: June 2, 2017
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Doron Tavory, Gilat Ankori, Jenya Dodina, Joy Rieger, Katarzyna Gniewkowska

2017

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: June 2, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Doron Tavory, Gilat Ankori, Jenya Dodina, Joy Rieger, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Muli Shulman, Neli Tagar, Orna Rotenberg, Rafael Stachowiak, Tom Avni

Summary: The year is 1977 and no female has ever been a renowned classical music composer. Sephi Milch, a very determined and talented young woman, aspires to a career as a classical composer, but she knows the odds are against her. In spite of this, she is dead set on changing the course of history and succeeding in the male-dominated classicalThe year is 1977 and no female has ever been a renowned classical music composer. Sephi Milch, a very determined and talented young woman, aspires to a career as a classical composer, but she knows the odds are against her. In spite of this, she is dead set on changing the course of history and succeeding in the male-dominated classical music world. Her struggle with the burden of history is not only limited to her artistic life – as the daughter of troubled Holocaust survivors she also has to deal with a sudden revelation from the past that threatens to tear her family apart. Nana Milch - Sephi's older sister and bitter rival, a scandal sheet journalist and an aspiring playwright - considers this startling revelation an opportunity to free herself from the stranglehold of her parents' past. Sephi is weary of her sister's tendency to look for trouble, but in this case she has no choice but to join Nana's quest for the truth.… Expand

Director: Avi Nesher

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jun 2, 2017

This is a striking and thought-provoking picture. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 13, 2017

Past Life is best appreciated as an attempt to finally give permission, at the source of the grievance (Israel), not to forget, but to at least forgive. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Jun 14, 2017

Despite some cumbersome moments, the film delivers a to-the-point message about how the sins of the parents can be visited on the children. Read full review

Peter Goldberg

May 29, 2017

Its improbable story gives breath to the burden of fate on those living with a past unreconciled. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jun 1, 2017

Past Life is a page-turner that transforms into a clarion call: always compelling, but slightly stifled by noble intentions. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

May 31, 2017

Past Life does add up to more than the sum of its heavy-handed miscalculations. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Jun 15, 2017

Past Life is a family melodrama in the guise of a murder mystery. Strong performances and the shadow of the Holocaust lend the story poignancy. Read full review

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