Out of Sight
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Assi Dayan, Guy Loel, Hadas Yaron, Sandra Sade, Yisrael Poliakov Director: Dani Sirkin DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Hebrew (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language) Format: Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Running Time: 87 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Sisu Home Ent. |
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Movie Reviews of Out of Sight
Movie Review: Goes on to my list of must-see Israeli releases (it's getting to be quite the list)
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this under-appreciated Israeli movie (originally released there in 2006 under the Hebrew title 'Lemarit Ain'). I have the urge to subtitle this movie "the undeniable adorableness of Tali Sharon." She plays the female lead, Ya'ara. Blind, beautiful, fiesty, intelligent - PhD in math at Princeton no less - writer Noa Greenberg has crafted a compelling character. About Ms. Sharon: She's one of the character arcs in In Treatment (Be'Tipul) - The Complete First Season (Hebrew)...the show upon which In Treatment: The Complete First Season is based. Other than that, she seems scandalously under-utilized. Maybe she's the poor man's Ayelet Zurer, the original Ice Princess.
As the movie progressed, another realization: this is a taut, interesting story Greenberg has written here, one that director Daniel Syrkin stages with considerable skill. This is not quite the stuff of the great Eran Riklis or of Eytan Fox, but it's a very well-crafted movie nevertheless. For example, Syrkin needs to stage a number of flashbacks to the young Ya'ara (Avigail Harari, equally adorable) and Talia. I just saw The Brothers Bloom and my advice on that movie was: don't give up it because of the initial flashback (because it doesn't measure up). No such worries on 'Out of Sight' - the flashbacks are every bit as good as the main narrative.
And now, my updated list of Israeli 'must see' movies (not all the movies I've seen make this list)...
[Amazon limits me to 10 links per review, so I'll provide a few here to bring me to 10 - I encourage you to see all these really nice films.]
1a. Walk on Water [directed by Eytan Fox]
1b. The Syrian Bride [Eran Riklis]
3. Lemon Tree [Eran Riklis]
4. Broken Wings [Nir Bergman - who went to super-stardom with his directing and writing on "Be'Tipul"]
5. The Band's Visit [Eran Kolirin - also deeply involved in "Be'Tipul"]
6. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi [Shemi Zarhin]
7. Late Marriage [Dover Koshashvili]
8. Time of Favor [Joseph Cedar]
9. Yossi & Jagger [Eytan Fox]
10. The Bubble [Eytan Fox]
11. Jellyfish (Meduzot) (Meduzot) [Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret]
12. Or, My Treasure [Keren Yedaya]
13. Beaufort [Joseph Cedar]
14. Out of Sight [Daniel Syrkin]
15. Nina's Tragedies [Savi Gavison]
16. Yana's Friends [Arik Kaplun]
17. My First War [Yariv Mozer]
The movie I'm dying to see: "The Mission of the Human Resources Manager" - Eran Riklis' take on A. B. Yehoshua's fine novel, A Woman in Jerusalem. IMDb tells me it's in production for a 2010 release.