With its piercing, probing final moments, which turn self-flagellating into thorny cathartic territory, Haguel has crafted an intimate portrait of privilege that’s as damning as it is discomfiting.
Read full articleConcerned Citizen is light on plot but filled with insight into what people expect of themselves and their peers.
Read full articleThis is satire served scalding hot, and in the end those living on the edge are the ones most often burnt to a crisp.
Read full articleHaguel builds this brief but densely structured film in an interestingly modular, rhythmic way, thanks to a percussive score by Zoe Polanski and occasional, abrupt cuts to black following key scenes.
Read full articleExamining familiar themes of gentrification and subconscious bias through a fresh sociocultural lens, this modest Israeli drama finds compassion in confronting volatile issues of race and privilege.
Read full articleIdan Haguel's dryly funny 'Concerned Citizen' tests a self-described liberal, gay Israeli's principles under pressure.
Read full articleA biting burrow into the challenged conscience of a gay couple in gentrifying South Tel Aviv. Whatever their identity, everyone is presented as having complex forces on them and compromised decisions to make.
Read full articleSuch troubled perspective only derives from a failed schema, wherein secondary characters are positioned either as pawns with no discernible interiority or plot beats serving only to contextualize our protagonist.
Read full articleFirst-world problems meet multicultural angst in his hot little number...
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