Walk on Water

Name: Walk on Water
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: March 4, 2005
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Caroline Peters, Knut Berger, Lior Ashkenazi

2005

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: March 4, 2005 | Unrated

Starring: Caroline Peters, Knut Berger, Lior Ashkenazi

Summary: A colorful and very contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This unique movie, is a non traditional attempt to understand the role that is still played by the past in the lives of Israeli and German young people. (IDP Films)

Director: Eytan Fox

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 103 min

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Owen Gleiberman

At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

It denotes a minor movie miracle: how with intelligence, imagination and craft a small film can work in really large ways. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

Hits a bulls-eye. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Though its characters aren't terribly complex, and its plot holds few surprises, the screenplay (in English, German, and Hebrew) amounts to a worthy treatise on the need to forgo revenge. Read full review

Stephen Cole

The Israeli film works best in isolated spots early on as a series of intriguing character studies. Upon reaching to become a lesson to the world, however, Walk on Water goes off the deep end. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Fox falters a bit with the narrative, but offers a fascinating treatment of the issues facing the descendents of Jewish victims and their German persecutors, as well as one of the most chilling birthday parties ever filmed. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Walk on Water makes you wonder what the Mossad is teaching its field agents these days. Read full review

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JaideepP.

Sep 25, 2006

Excellent movie, really well done. Tackles an interesting issue from multiple angles. The relevance of the Nazi era to modern Israelis, nationalism, fear of the enemy, German self-image regarding WW II...Balanced, realistic.

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patb.

May 15, 2006

This movie wasn't supposed to answer questions--it was supposed to raise them. It had a wide scope, difficult to address, perhaps, in one film, but it certainly should make people think and feel, the result of any good film.

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TerryBelanger

Mar 4, 2011

A good example of the current (i.e. post-2000) manner of treating gay characters in feature films. They're there, in the same way that straight men and women and the old and minority groups and children are there: all part of the palette drawn on by the writer and director, but not centralA good example of the current (i.e. post-2000) manner of treating gay characters in feature films. They're there, in the same way that straight men and women and the old and minority groups and children are there: all part of the palette drawn on by the writer and director, but not central to the action *because* they're gay. Convincing performances by all involved in this movie, which is very much worth seeing; amazingly for action films these days, there's not much violence and not much nudity.… Expand

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