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Synonyms
Directed by
Nadav Lapid
Not Rated
2019
2h 3m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.3
87%
33%
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A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
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Cast of Synonyms
Tom Mercier
Yoav
Quentin Dolmaire
Emile
Louise Chevillotte
Caroline
Uria Hayik
Yaron
Olivier Loustau
Michel
Yehuda Almagor
Yoav's Father
Léa Drucker
French Teacher
Gaya Von Schwarze
Tamar
Gal Amitai
Eyal
Idan Ashkenazi
Roey
Dolev Ohana
Amit
Liron Baranes
Officer
Erwan Ribard
Tolga
Yawen Ribard
Tolga's Son
Iman Amara-Korba
Yasmina
Sébastien Roubinet
Police Agent
Damien Carlet
Cello Player
Ron Bitterman
Army Commander
Naor Nachmani
Jeep Driver
Yahalom David
Army Singer 1
Herut Cohen
Army Singer 2
Valentine Carette
Dancing Girl at Bar 1
Catherine Denecy
Dancing Girl at Bar 2
Christophe Paou
Raphaël
Yilin Yang
Young Girl Singing the Marseillaise
Jonathan Boudina
Aurélien
Nadav Lapid
Director / Writer
Haim Lapid
Writer
Claire Maugendre
Writer
Michel Merkt
Producer
Saïd Ben Saïd
Producer
Synonyms Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
Nadiv's film forgoes an overarching narrative structure, which - depending on your patience with such things - is either exhilarating or exasperating. I found it to be the former, in no small part because newcomer Tom Mercier is absolutely riveting.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It's all very deep. Except, you know, not really.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
As stiff-neck storytelling goes, this is pretty damn impressive.
Washington Post
Hau Chu
What makes "Synonyms" so compelling is how it explores the theme of identity through a lens of searing self-reflection.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie... is antic, poetic, funny, and alarming in equal measure - a real ride, although where the ride is taking both its hero and the audience is always in question.
The New York Review of Books
J. Hoberman
...at once an ambivalent love letter to Paris and a startling act of cinematic aggression. The camera moves are brusque.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
A fascinating and ever-changing film... It is so unpredictable.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
[A] searing, maddening, explosively brainy movie about the mutability and immutability of the self that, appropriately enough, never stops changing shape.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
This portrait of an ex-pat is also a critique that suggests a citizenship weaned on perpetual life-during-wartime alert might be slightly traumatized.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
For all the artful obliqueness of Lapid's approach, the autobiographical background of the story lends it a lived-in honesty; the incidents and interactions of Synonyms feel both symbolic and true.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
One word for Nadav Lapid's Synonyms, a movie with a hero obsessed with words, is "astonishing."
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
The movie is, for all its accomplishments, sketchy, tentative.
4Columns
Melissa Anderson
Mercier, who appears in nearly every scene, is a consistently galvanic presence.
NPR
Danny Hensel
Small details... create a compelling portrait of modern immigration.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Furious, brilliant, exhausting...
TheWrap
Elizabeth Weitzman
Filmmaker and subject also share a disdain for restraint, shouting and jostling to ensure we've gotten their point. But while their parallel passions aren't exactly subtle, they do make their mark.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
But whereas the films it quotes sought to create cryptic and contrapuntal meanings, Lapid errs on the side of the loudly obvious, building to a final shot that might as well be a thesis statement for the rest of the film.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Lapid delivers a deeply personal rant in the form of a wild and reckless drama...
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Astonishing, maddening, brilliant, hilarious, obstinate, and altogether unmissable.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Typecasting Israelis and Parisians alike, the film demands multilevel readings, forcing viewers to question the nature of stereotypes and their validity outside parody.
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