Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production:     arte France Cinéma
Genre:     Drama
Countries:     Germany, France, Israel
Languages:     French, Arabic, Hebrew
Director;     Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Stars:    Abraham Celektar, Eli Gornstein, Albert Iluz, Gabi Amrani, Evelin Hagoel

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2015) Movie Critic Review - Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Movie Directed by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz. Under Production: arte France Cinéma. In Cinema Feb 13, 2015 with Stars: Abraham Celektar, Eli Gornstein, Albert Iluz, Gabi Amrani, Evelin Hagoel

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The Dissolve | Noel Murray
The Elkabetzes don’t need the audience to have any firsthand experience of what Viviane and Elisha are actually like at home. Gett works better if the viewer has to puzzle out the truth from testimony, asides, and outbursts.
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The New York Times | Manohla Dargis
With her dramatically pale face framed by a voluptuous dark cloud of hair, Ms. Elkabetz is never more effective than when she’s holding still, her face so drained of emotion that it transforms into a screen within the screen on which another, indelibly private movie is playing.
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The A.V. Club | Keith Uhlich
All the performers are superb, though as the title suggests, this is Viviane’s show, and Ronit makes for an exceptional martyr (she gets a Passion Of Joan Of Arc-worthy close-up or two) who never loses her very human shadings.
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New York Magazine | David Edelstein
The brilliance of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is that, without a shift in tone, the film begins to seem like a tragedy populated by clowns, its males clinging to ancient laws to compensate for feebleness of character.
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Variety | Jay Weissberg
The beautifully modulated script, ripe with moments of liberating humor, builds to a crescendo of indignation, allowing Elkabetz several cathartic outbursts, but they’re no more riveting than the actress’ silences.
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New York Post | Farran Smith Nehme
As Viviane, Elkabetz is fascinating, wielding an incredible variety of contemptuous looks.
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The New York Times | Manohla Dargis
With her dramatically pale face framed by a voluptuous dark cloud of hair, Ms. Elkabetz is never more effective than when she’s holding still, her face so drained of emotion that it transforms into a screen within the screen on which another, indelibly private movie is playing.
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Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey
The tragedy here is not a single story but that a process so inequitable and so inane continues in a place that is considered to be enlightened. Gett, in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world.
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