| Product Summary | | Publisher: Kino Video | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00738329019327 | | Buy.com Sku: 40146066 | | Item#: VRVRDX | | Category Keywords: Theatrical Release | | Rating: NR |
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Features: DVD, English, Subtitled
Kadosh ('sacred' in hebrew) examines the treatment of women inthe ultra-orthodox jewish community community in the meashearim neighborhood of jerusalem. It is the controversial and deeply disturbing story of 2 sisters chafing under therestricions of their religious leaders.
"Startlingly angry... the acting is uniformly superb..." TV Guide Online
"The best Israeli film ever! Luminous...A fine film." Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
"A haunting depiction of life inside an ultra-Orthodox community." Deborah Sontag, The New York Times
"An anguished cry...ripped from the headlines immediacy." Scott Helier, The Boston Phoenix
"...alive with both ideas...and full, rounded performances..." Michael Thomson, BBCi
Editor's Note
With KADOSH (meaning Sacred) director Amos Gitai paints a powerful picture of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem's isolated Mea Shearim district. KADOSH follows two sisters through two events initiated by the community's Rabbi: an arranged marriage and an arranged divorce. Although Malka (Meital Barda) is in love with Yaakov (Sami Hori), who broke his connection to Orthodox Judaism when he joined the army, she consents to marrying the man to whom the Rabbi has willed her, and she quickly finds herself trapped in a miserable, abusive relationship. Meanwhile, Malka's sister Rivka (Yael Abecassis), is forced to end her 10-year marriage to Meir (Yoram Hattab), because she has not fulfilled her obligation to bear him a child. The film presents difficult issues both about the way that women are devalued and mistreated in this community, and about the extent to which the rigors of this traditional faith prohibit any experience of the outside world. At the same time, Gitai's fly-on-the-wall approach allows the viewer to carefully observe the rituals, beliefs, and relationships in this ultra-Orthodox world, and understand more about a culture that was essentially lost to the Holocaust, but that is preserved in Mea Shearim.
| Features | Subtitles: English | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailer | | "Making Of..." Featurette | | Audio: Hebrew Dolby Digital Stereo |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Kino Video |
| Release Date: 11/28/2000 |
| Running Time: 117 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 0193 | | UPC: 00738329019327 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Hebrew | | Available Audio Tracks: Hebrew | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes Film Festival (1999) | | | Nominee, Golden Palm | |
British Academy Awards (2000) |  | Winner, Best Foreign Film/Foreign Language |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...The sombre mood has a hypnotic, resonant flicker..." 08/01/2000 p.93Entertainment Weekly
"...Chillingly captur[es] the austerity of a world bound by fanaticism and prayer." -- Rating" A- 12/08/2000 p.68 Box Office
"...Sensitive....The screenplay movingly shows the painful conflict when human emotions clash with religious teachings....The cast is excellent..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 09/01/1999 p.148 Los Angeles Times
"...Somber, elegiac....Beautiful..." 03/17/2000 p.F14 Uncut
"Gitai manages to convey a sense of both the rich culture and impassioned faith of the community and of its infuriating insularity, dogmatism and misogynism." 08/01/2000 p.116 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
...I left the film with the thought that if God in his infinite love cannot gather both sexes into his arms equally, then I would like to sit down with him and ask him, respectfully, what his problem is. - Roger Ebert
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