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Free Zone
Directed by
Amos Gitai
Not Rated
2006
90m
Drama
,
Comedy
5.7
26%
35%
5.5
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Two women embark on a road trip after they are brought together by circumstance. Rebecca (Portman) flees her hotel after a fight with her mother-in-law (Maura) and hails a taxi driven by Hanna (Lazlo).
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Where to Watch Free Zone
Chai Flicks
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Kino Film Collection Amazon Channel
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Cast of Free Zone
Natalie Portman
Rebecca
Hana Laslo
Hanna Ben Moshe
Hiam Abbass
Leila
Carmen Maura
Mrs. Breitberg
Makram J. Khoury
Samir aka "The American"
Aki Avni
Julio
Uri Klauzner
Moshe Ben Moshe
Liron Levo
Security A
Tomer Russo
Security B
Adnan Tarabshi
Gas Salesman
Shredi Jabarin
Oasis Man
Tinkerbell
Kobi Lieber
Amos Gitai
Director / Writer / Co-Producer
Marie-Jose Sanselme
Writer
Nicolas Blanc
Producer
Michael Tapuach
Producer
Laurent Truchot
Producer
Robert Guédiguian
Co-Producer
Michel Reilhac
Co-Producer
Free Zone Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
...despite a provocative climax, the movie settles into a ponderous collection of soliloquies...
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
There's an art to ambiguity -- there really is... Left to their own devices, viewers will fill in the blanks, but when the movie starts filling them in itself, you have to wonder about the mismatch.
Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
While Portman does outshine everyone and everything on screen and though she certainly gets credit for making the rsum sacrifice in the spirit of embracing her heritage, Free Zone does nothing for her in return
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Without much effort you can imagine the corkboard littered with index cards mapping out the political clashes this cast is asked to act out in their robotic interactions.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
A rambling road movie with noble intentions and an excess of speechifying.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The milieu he chooses -- essentially one long, queerly prosaic car ride to nowhere -- robs the film of much of its dramatic force.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A minor movie on a major subject, a drama with an almost unbearable lightness.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Much of the dialogue is didactic and pedantic. And when not didactic and pedantic, it's plodding and dull.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The message is made clear within the first 10 minutes, leaving us with about 80 minutes of thematic repetition.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[A] fractious film from thorny filmmaker Amos Gitai.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Free Zone suffers from too-much-information syndrome, stalling out now and again from its tangled narrative wiring and an overload of emotional freight.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's a nice crying jag by Natalie Portman, but there's not much else here to recommend.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The film is diluted by the use of flashbacks superimposed over present-time scenes. The result is visual chaos.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Amos Gitai's long-winded essay revolves around the interaction of three women, an American, an Israeli and a Palestinian, on a car trip from Israel to Jordan.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Gita has no real interest in who these women are beyond their symbolic resonance.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Per usual, Gitai largely eschews exposition, but his reticence sits awkwardly beside his penchant for saddling his deliberately stereotyped figures with trite, unwieldy speeches and symbolic-ironic biographical data.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Addressing conflict by conflicting itself, Free Zone's effect is almost avant-garde.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sheri Linden
With characters more often than not functioning as mouthpieces, audiences might feel like involuntary passengers trapped in the backseat.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
Visually, Free Zone resembles a home movie in which an overly enthusiastic vacationer records every moment of a mundane trip.
Variety
Derek Elley
[The] set-up is given a human face by fine performances and a physical journey that's often more interesting than the characters' emotional ones.
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