Private

Name: Private
Genre: Drama, War
Released: November 18, 2005
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 61

2005

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Typecast Releasing | Release Date: November 18, 2005

Summary: Inspired by real events, documentary filmmaker Saverio Costanzo's feature debut is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel. (Typecast Releasing)

Director: Saverio Costanzo

Genre(s): Drama, War

Runtime: 90 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

For a movie rooted in reality, Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo's taut psychological drama is in desperate danger of drowning in metaphor. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Private, Italian director Saverio Costanzo's stunning human drama, would seem like something out of Kafka if it weren't based on real events and a relatively common fact of contemporary Palestinian life. Read full review

Frank Scheck

The film possesses a quiet but powerful tension. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Perhaps inevitably bleak and grueling, Private is also involving and provocative -- and critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians in an effectively understated manner. Read full review

Derek Elley

Political realities are a powerful bonus to, rather than the only reason for, Private, an emotionally gripping drama. Read full review

Joshua Katzman

Director Saverio Costanzo shrewdly de-emphasizes the political issues, instead charting the subtle shifts in power between the prisoners and their captors. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Israeli soldiers are cast as the killers, while the Palestinians are the hapless bunnies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is thus reimagined as "Bambi." Read full review

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