A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Drama
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2011
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Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
8 Oct 2011
Country:
FR, IL, CA, PS
Languages:
Hebrew (modern), French, Arabic
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
4 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It raises the hope that someday, perhaps, there can be a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian minds.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
4 Jan 2013
fresh:
A gentle pairing of youthful idealism and tenacious hope.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
3 Jan 2013
fresh:
What elevates [it] ... is the gentleness with which Binisti approaches his difficult subject.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan 2013
rotten:
Although smoothly directed, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea has little visual personality or dramatic urgency.
– Jon Frosch,
Village Voice,
2 Jan 2013
rotten:
The film's notion that a little understanding and a lot of e-mailing would basically solve the Middle East crisis ... is as reductive as it is utopian.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
1 Jan 2013