Dissolution (2012)
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Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Menkes's most recent film combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black-and-white realism to explore the condition of violence that permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of… More Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Menkes's most recent film combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black-and-white realism to explore the condition of violence that permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by Didi Fire. -- (C) Anthology
- Directed By
- Nina Menkes
- Written By
- Nina Menkes
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 9, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Anthology
Critic Reviews
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Here, dreams and reality rub shoulders, and redemption seems as distant as peace itself.
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David Fear, Time Out New York
The notion that Menkes would take on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and set it in Tel Aviv (a city familiar with conflict) seems, in hindsight, like an inevitability.
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Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine
Nina Menkes's camera is at its most effective when it seems dumbfounded at what it's indexing.
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