Advocate
Everyone needs someone who has their back
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 9, 2020
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Philippe Bellaiche | |
| Composition by | Robert Marcel Lepage |
Entertainment Reviews:
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TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 16
Rating: 3/4 --
A reminder to audiences everywhere of the importance of the rule of law, its equal application and appointing judges who understand that importance.
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Movie Nation
This documentary portrait of Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel gets absorbingly up close and personal.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 7/10 --
Admiring bio-doc of only lawyer defending Palestinians in Israel. With interviews and cinéma vérité, goes inside halls and offices to closely follow wrenching legal cases.
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Maven's Nest
Rating: 8/10 --
Advocate is a document of a hopeful figure willing to block out the screams for fealty to a flag when an obligation to human life should forever be of greater importance.
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Jaredmobarak.com
Expertly directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche, "Advocate" examines Tsemel from numerous perspectives, delving into her history, her family and the way she operates day to day.
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Los Angeles Times
The filmmakers eschew many of the conventions of biographical documentary to deliver a propulsive, cool-headed courtroom drama.
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Sight and Sound
Maybe there's a perceptual shift at play, or maybe the film is simply good enough to break past that bias. It certainly rises above the usual standard of both biographical and political docs.
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- Sales Rank: 107,011
- UPC: 850003924755
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