Forgiveness (2006)
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30% of critics liked it
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50% of users liked it
(123 ratings)
A 20-year-old American Israeli decides to move back to Israel and reconnect with his roots, only to be institutionalized in a mental-health facility constructed on the grounds of a Palestinian village that was massacred by a Jewish militia back in 1948. David Adler (Itay Tiran) has moved back to… More A 20-year-old American Israeli decides to move back to Israel and reconnect with his roots, only to be institutionalized in a mental-health facility constructed on the grounds of a Palestinian village that was massacred by a Jewish militia back in 1948. David Adler (Itay Tiran) has moved back to Israel, but the joy of his homecoming is short-lived when he is committed to a mental institution and injected with a chemo-technological drug at the behest of his father -- a Holocaust survivor and famous musician. Later, blind mental patient Muselmann, who serves as a conduit between the worlds of the living and the dead, implores the troubled David to listen to the ghosts that have long been rumored to dwell in the hospital corridors. It seems that the spirit of a ten-year-old girl holds the secret to a riddle that could bring an end to the continual cycle of violence that sweeps their land, but only when she finds eternal rest will that secret finally be revealed. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Critic Reviews
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
The result is a hodgepodge of plots and styles, a fault compounded by stiff acting and, except for a few scenes, wooden direction.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
The message may be clear -- suppress the past at your peril -- but the execution is a mess.
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Michelle Orange, Village Voice
David's trauma, madness, and recovery is arranged as a puzzle of dreams, flashbacks, hallucinations, and strikingly choreographed numbers that, while occasionally dazzling, remains in pieces at film's end.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
While the subject of this Israeli feature is riveting and the intention honorable, the narrative strategy and technical execution leave much to be desired.
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Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com
Builds on real macabre coincidences to pile on symbolism higher and higher in time-tripping phantasmagoria of flashbacks, nightmares,fantasy and occasional credibility.
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Cast
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Itay Tiran
as David Adler
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Clara Khoury
as Lila
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Moni Moshonov
as Muselmann
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Makram Khoury
as Dr. Isaac Shemesh
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Tamara Mansour
as Amal/Ghost/Girl
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Michael Sarne
as Henry Adler
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Ruba Blal
as Nawal
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Idit Teperson
as Colonel Daniel
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Omer Barnea
as Yoni
