Private - Starring Mohammad Bakri
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Areen Omari, Hend Ayoub, Lior Miller, Mohammad Bakri, Tomer Ruso Director: Saverio Costanzo DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Typecast Releasing |
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Movie Reviews of Private - Starring Mohammad Bakri
Movie Review: Home invasion . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This powerful little allegory has all the intensity of an in-your-face thriller shot with the immediacy of documentary-style camerawork and editing. Quite simply, a Palestinian family has their house taken over by a small platoon of Israeli soldiers. Confined to one room every night, they each react in different ways to what is an unquestionable outrage. The father refuses to yield, when abandoning the house would seem the only way to save his family and himself, especially when he is threatened by the commanding officer who puts a gun to his head. While his daughter slowly comes around to her father's belief that the soldiers are no less human than themselves, afraid and vulnerable, his son is pulled in a very different direction - retaliation. At the end, we are left with the harrowing conclusion that one cancels out the other, and there may never be an end.
Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo is masterful not only in keeping the adrenalin flowing but in preserving the credibility of the film's story at both allegorical and naturalistic levels. The family stands for Occupied Palestine, and the political statement made is crystal clear. Meanwhile, the actual situation is straight out of the pages of Israeli journalist Amira Haas' reportage from the West Bank. The achievement in part is due to the performances of the actors, whose characters are fully realized. Wait for the scene on the stairs between the oldest daughter and the youngest son. If only movies could change the world.