Close to Home
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 19, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sharon Raginiano, Naama Shendar & Smadar Sayar | |
Directed by | Vardit Bilu & Dalia Hagar | |
Screenwriting by | Vardit Bilu | |
Composition by | Yonatan Bar-Giora | |
Produced by | Marek Rosenbaum & Itai Tamir | |
Director of Photography: | Yaron Scharf |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
More a buddy movie than a political one, it nonetheless captures the festering tensions of a divided city.
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BBC.com
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]t successfully provides a perceptive snapshot of everyday life in a bitterly divided city.
Total Film
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While Close to Home follows a predictable path in its story, it's not without its charms, much of it down to the very believable portrayal of the young soldiers who view many of their duties with the world-weariness of terminally bored teens.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 3/4 --
An engaging, straightforward look at female soldiers guarding the center of Jerusalem during the current intifada.
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Jerusalem Post
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Close to Home is no buddy-cop, action-comedy ... it leaves out the action and the comedy so all that is left is a predictable narrative with no entertainment appeal.
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Cinematical
[I]t's the absence of any self-conscious soapboxing that lends CLOSE TO HOME its poignant effectiveness.
Sight and Sound
One of the most unusual coming-of-age stories I've ever seen, "Close to Home" offers the same teen-angst themes as some American movies but against a backdrop of war and politics.
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Sympatico.ca
Product Description:
Life as a teenage girl in Israel isn't easy. Just ask Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), two 18-year-olds who spend their workdays wearing fatigues as officers in the Israeli Army. Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hagar's CLOSE TO HOME addresses the challenging concept of a country in which young women are forced to perform military service amidst the trials and tribulations of teenage confusion. Smadar is a rebellious type who clearly has issues letting people get close to her. Meanwhile, Mirit is as by-the-book as they come. When they're paired together to patrol the streets of Jerusalem and perform random I.D. searches on those who look suspicious (i.e., any and all Arabs), it looks like they're never going to get along. Gradually, they begin to warm up to each other, and a sisterly bond develops. But ultimately the strain of trying to balance personal issues with the stress of being soldiers causes them to rethink their friendship forever. Clearly a subject close to Bilu and Hagar's hearts, CLOSE TO HOME is, at its core, a universal story about budding womanhood. But placed in a military context, the stakes are even higher, and the levels run even deeper. Both Sayar and Schendar deliver superb performances, capturing their characters' constantly shifting emotional states with flawless accuracy.