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Klawans, Stuart | November 20, 2000 issue

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The article describes the cinematic, thematic and directorial beauty of the film "Kippur," co-written and directed by Asmos Gitai. Kippur's vision of rain and smoke hanging above a scarred earth, and of men who are either dead or else staggering about in physical and moral exhaustion. Kippur is long minutes of futile slogging, interrupted by bursts of terror. The picture might almost be encapsulated in the indelible episode-shot in a single, seemingly endless take-in which four members of a rescue team struggle to carry an unconscious soldier out of a sucking, oozing wasteland.

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KIPPUR (Film); GITAI, Amos, 1950-; MOTION pictures -- Moral & ethical aspects; MOTION pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.; RESCUES; WASTE lands; SOLDIERS
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