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Private
Directed by
Saverio Costanzo
2005
90m
Drama
,
War
6.8
82%
89%
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A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
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Cast of Private
Lior Miller
Commander Ofer
Hend Ayoub
Mariam B.
Tomer Russo
Private Eial
Areen Omari
Marco Alsaying
Sara Hamzeh
Karem Emad Hassan Aly
Amir Hasayen
Niv Shafir
Sahar Lachmy
Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad B.
Private Reviews
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Private, Italian director Saverio Costanzo's stunning human drama, would seem like something out of Kafka if it weren't based on real events and a relatively common fact of contemporary Palestinian life.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
A sketchy but compelling Italian movie about Middle East power struggles.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The Palestinian characters are so thinly conceived that they might as well be named Victims One through Seven, and they're far more developed than the Israeli characters.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The film's paranoia and sense of futility won't change your feelings about the Middle East. But it may open your eyes to the sense of violation that drives the endless cycle of violence there.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A midnight raid by Israeli soldiers turns the home of a Palestinian family into an occupied territory in Saverio Constanzo's politically loaded allegory.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
... involving and provocative ...
Newsday
John Anderson
A wrenchingly well-acted, minimalist trip into a small circle of hell.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Costanzo's debut feature film is potent stuff.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
Offers a complex, non-partisan take on the Middle East conflict.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
It looks and feels like Session 9 but it rattles the soul like The Gate of the Sun.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
... as politically defiant a metaphor for Israeli-Palestinian relations in the occupied territories as you'll ever see on screen.
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
While the film is ultimately too limited in its scope to have much lingering impact, it does make for a thoughtful addition to the growing list of films dealing with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
The young Italian director Saverio Costanzo puts an unnervingly intimate twist on the costs of military occupation in this aptly claustrophobic drama.
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
Never acquires the emotional weight it should.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
Successfully recasts the Israeli occupation on a purely domestic level.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
An often effective vrit slash of agitprop.
Orlando Weekly
Steve Schneider
The movie is more noteworthy for the intimate suspense it brings to the subject of Israeli occupation than for any dramatic conclusion it chooses to reach.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Andy Klein
Costanzo is...successful in creating an emotional attachment to his characters.
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
The film's dramatic potential is never fully exploited, as if the filmmakers too never dared to explore what happened on the first floor.
Boxoffice Magazine
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Rather than evincing some subtlety in its depiction of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the movie's Italian makers prefer to engage in melodrama and simplistic Israel-bashing.
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