Zaytoun
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 18, 2014
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stephen Dorff | |
Directed by | Eran Riklis | |
Composition by | Cyril Morin | |
Director of Photography: | Dan Laustsen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Given how much Zaytoun follows the playbook, the pic's portentous ending is extraordinarily subtle, and will resonate best with those who know the history of the region.
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Variety
Spoken plainly, the olives of Zaytoun are bland to the taste.
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Times of Israel
3 stars out of 5 -- [The movie] neatly juxtaposes the beauty of the landscape with the enmities it engenders...
Total Film
An overly sentimental film that tends to overstep the bounds of realism.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Zaytoun is surprisingly short on tension, with each and every potential danger evaded though a collection of jarring edits or implausible events.
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CineVue
Rating: B- --
The resolution is a bit Hollywood, but then who says all films about the Middle East have to be relentlessly grim? "Zaytoun" dares to find common ground and hope amidst political confusion.
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Detroit News
Rating: 4/10 --
It's possible to make humor work under the weight of war, but it requires more finesse and tact than Riklis and penner Nader Rizq exhibit.
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Way Too Indie
Product Description:
A young Palestinian refugee seeks the help of a captured Israeli Air Force pilot in gaining entry to Israel, and planting an olive tree in memory of his late father in this drama from director Eran Riklis (THE SYRIAN BRIDE, PLAYOFF). Beirut, Lebanon: 1982. Displaced from his home and stranded in the midst of a civil war, Fahed (Abdallah ElAkal) and his people live in constant fear of being invaded by Israel. Fahed spends most of his days ditching school and selling gum and cigarettes to make some extra cash. Meanwhile, PLO officers are repeatedly attempting to recruit Fahed and his friends to take up the fight against the enemy to the south. Later, when the bombs start to fall, Fahed's father is killed as the locals apprehend an Israeli Air Force pilot who ejected from his F-16 in the midst of an air raid. The pilot's name is Yoni (Stephen Dorff), and Fahed quickly makes the decision to set him free so that he can lead the young boy back to the land where his grandfather grew up -- the land now known as Israel. Once there, Fahed will plant the olive tree that his father had been raising before he was killed. Stealthily freeing the pilot in exchange for helping him gain safe passage into Israel, Fahed develops a tenuous bond with Yoni as they elude soldiers on a journey across the war-torn landscape, and attempt to overcome their differences in order to achieve a common goal.
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- UPC: 712267331024
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