'Tangerines (2015)' Movie Critics Review

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Tangerines (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     87 min
Production:    
Genres:     Drama, History, War
Countries:     Estonia, Georgia
Languages:     Russian, Estonian, Georgian     
Director:       Zaza Urushadze
Stars:      Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze

Tangerines (2015) Movie Review: War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

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Reviews By Critics For  'Tangerines (2015)'

Maria Garcia | Film Journal International

Excellent performances from the ensemble cast [...] elevate what is an otherwise theatrical treatment of a timeworn narrative.

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Susan Wloszczyna | RogerEbert.com

By the end, Georgian director-writer Zaza Urushadze has performed a small miracle by presenting the insanity of war in such a compact form.

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Kyle Turner | Movie Mezzanine

Tangerines ends up being serviceably bleak, but rarely compelling.

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Matt Prigge | Metro

Every time the viewer feels OK to kick back they're whacked them over the head by crude message-mongering or unsubtle ironies.

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A.O. Scott | New York Times

"Tangerines" is a modest film, sure of its proportions and clear about its intentions. The key to its effectiveness lies with the actors ...

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Joe Morgenstern | Wall Street Journal

This remarkable piece of antiwar cinema honors its theme, and the movie medium.

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Tangerines Movie Review By MDBReviews

The astonishment selection in the best remote film class at the 2015 Academy Awards, Estonian-Georgian co-generation Tangerines is a strained, moving, nuanced hostile to war show. It might not have lifted the enormous prize, however its incorporation in the shortlist – the first ever for a film from either nation – was the zenith of a wave of goodwill that had been building since its introduction at the 2013 Warsaw Film Festival. The good to beat all accompanied Samuel Goldwyn's procurement of the film for US circulation on the eve of the Oscars. Discharged dramatically on 17 April in New York and 24 April in Los Angeles, Tangerines could include a couple of more domains in the wake of the consideration, in spite of its long timeframe of realistic usabil

It would not be right to exaggerate Tangerines' feelgood element; this is on one level at any rate a war film with a high body tally and an unromantic perspective of man's apparently boundless craving for tribal clash. Be that as it may essayist chief Urushadze has discovered a route into the material that concentrates widespread lessons from an infinitesimally nearby flashpoint. His subject is not simply a now very nearly overlooked Caucasian war – the Georgian-Abkhaz clash that erupted in the late spring of 1992. It's an overlooked point of interest of that overlooked war: the way that several ethnic Estonians who had lived in Abkhazia since the 19th century were compelled to escape to a "homeland" they had never known. It's a path in one such Estonian-Abkhaz town, a country utopia ruled by the citrus products of the title, that gives the film its single are.

Dealt with in a succinct opening caption, what might seem like a challenging ethno-historic background melts away almost immediately. It’s just a premise, allowing Urushadze to hone the drama down to the lean and hungry shape of a humane, philosophical Spaghetti Western. It’s about three men, the pitch might go: two wounded young fighters, bitter enemies, who are saved and nursed back to health by an older man who refuses to take sides. Will they tear each other part once healed? Or will their host’s clear-eyed pacifism prevail!!

Played by the sublime Lembit Ulfsak, a kind of Estonian Laurence Olivier, this more established man is Ivo – a stooped, anxious yet at the same time noble craftsman who lives in the provincial enclave where the entire story works out. Ivo, it soon gets to be clear, stayed put after the episode of the Georgian-Abkhaz war, however a large portion of his family decided to leave. The main other stiff-necked Estonian survivor in the prompt region is Ivo's companion Margus, a rancher who has remained focused he can't endure the prospect that his tangerine yield won't be collected. The current year's yield is abundant to the point that Ivo can barely make the containers sufficiently quic

Part of the appeal of Tangerines has to do with the sense that we’re in a place out of time – just like these two ethnic fish out of water. Furnishings, light fittings, even the radio that brings news of the war – all float in an indeterminate vintage era, and this veneer of fable  makes the war, when it arrives, all the more violent and jarring.

After a jeep chase and shoot-out that leaves three soldiers dead, Ivo finds himself having to care for two wounded fighters – something he does with the same patient absorption that he applies to his woodworking. One, Ahmed , is a Muslim Chechen mercenary fighting on the Abkhazi side; the other, Niko is a young Christian Georgian volunteer. Both, in their different ways, bring the implacable logic of military conflict into a house that has only every known peace; and the absorbing, slow-build drama that follows is a battle of wills between the war-hating Ivo and two men who don’t see why he should waste his time nursing their enemy back to life

Its effect fixed by no matter how you look at it solid exhibitions from its all-male cast, Tangerines is a film about misfortune and having a place, about rootedness and takeoff. Those boxes, prepared for fare, remain in for the populaces that get ostracized and shunted around for the sake of patriotism, additionally recommend the route troopers like Ahmed or Niko permit themselves to despise, and in this way shoot, by making boxes of bias and prattle around the 'adversary'. The disassembling of such mental boundaries does not occur without the incidental constrained script move – and there's a sure showy quality about the one-stop area and a percentage of the dialog – yet the finished result is a rich and enthusiastic film, in which a man confined by the tide of history oversees, for a brief time, to act as minor act of God through the power of strength, empathy and rule.

Certainly, the film's advancement of all inclusive fraternity doesn't appear to stretch out to the Russian fighters who quickly show up close to the end in place, it shows up, to unite the film's three mistreated minorities. In any case that is alright; even a hostile to war film needs its goodies and badd

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