Lamb
Innocence walks a fine line.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2016
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: KimStim
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bitania Abraham, Mihiratu Alemu, Welela Assefa, Indris Mohamed, Surafel Teka, Rahel Teshome, Kidist Siyum & Rediat Amare | |
Directed by | Yared Zeleke |
Entertainment Reviews:
Feeling creeped out is unavoidable, but it's an inquisitive unsettling born of a faith that people are inherently complicated, worthy of love, capable of good and yet all too often mired in well-meaning intentions that hurt more than help.
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Los Angeles Times
This warm, unembellished film feels universal and timeless, but its key themes are also very timely: whether we're talking about the internal or external, hometown or country, this is a highly resonant story about displacement.
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Cinema Scope
The film shifts from Daniel's to Tommie's point of view in a remarkably subtle fashion, altering the makeup of the story and the ways we're forced to wrestle with it.
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NPR
Rating: 2/4 --
Partridge has a strong screen presence, but the potential power of his storytelling approach is negated when emotions get mushy in the third act. That's when we figure out that this film doesn't know exactly what it wants to say.
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San Francisco Chronicle
While the personal is political in Lamb, it's also an affecting work of art.
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KQED (San Francisco)
In the novel, Lamb is a fantasist who uses Tommie as a blank (pure) slate on which to write a new life story. Mr. Partridge never figures out how to complicate his version and its voices, or maybe doesn't want to.
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New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Thoughtful and moving, with political undercurrents that may prompt viewers to reassess their understanding of the region and the challenges it faces, Lamb is a beautifully observed film with the potential to appeal to a wide audience.
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Eye for Film
Description by OLDIES.com:
Yared Zeleke's remarkable debut tells the story of young Ephraim, a half-Jewish, Ethiopian boy who is sent by his father to live among distant relatives after his mother's death. Ephraim uses his cooking skills to carve out a place among his cousins, but when his uncle decides that his beloved sheep must be sacrificed for the next religious feast, how will he save the animal and return home'
Keywords:
Africa
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Cooking
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Agriculture
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Animal rights
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Sheep
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Farm
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Orphan
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Ethiopia
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Black Jews
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vegetarian
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relocation
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,327
- UPC: 698452211930
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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