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Overview

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Director:
Amos Gitai
Writers:
Amos Gitai (writer)
Marie-Jose Sanselme (writer)
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Release Date:
7 April 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
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). full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
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(8 articles)
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Cast

  (Credited cast)

Natalie Portman ... Rebecca
Hana Laszlo ... Hanna Ben Moshe (as Hanna Laszlo)
Hiam Abbass ... Leila
Carmen Maura ... Mrs. Breitberg

Makram Khoury ... Samir aka "The American"

Aki Avni ... Julio
Uri Klauzner ... Moshe Ben Moshe
Liron Levo ... Border Security
Tomer Russo ... Border Security
Adnan Tarabshi ... Petrol Station Owner

Shredi Jabarin ... Walid (as Shredy Gabarin)
Kobi Lieber ... Radio Narrator (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Free Zone (France)
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Runtime:
90 min
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR | Stereo
Certification:
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Brazil:12 | Singapore:PG
Filming Locations:
Free Zone, Jordan more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
First Israeli movie shot in Jordan. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When the vehicle is just approaching the border crossing near the end of the film (1:23:00 on the DVD) we can see the silhouette of someone wearing a baseball cap moving about in the back of the vehicle. more
Quotes:
Hanna: Rebecca come back ! more
Soundtrack:
Had Gadia more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Awful, 28 May 2009
1/10
Author: hishamzr

When I saw the beginning of the film begins with more than 10 minutes of Natalie crying in a passenger seat, while nothing is happening, I knew this film will be a very boring film, but I kept watching it, and I made a mistake! The film is a 15 minutes film dragged into 90 minute film, when most of the time nothing is happening, it is not that the film is slow, just things don't move, beside the car they are driving. The director did a very good job of annoying me, he just made a joke of the middle east conflict with a shallow, meaning less story. I am a big fan of art movies, and I am not a Hollywood movie fan, but this Free Zone is not an art movie, and even it is not a Hollywood movie. What I don't understand is how can this film win any awards and even be nominated, especially in Cannes Film Festival. Was the actors so bad in that year that Hana Laszlo won the best Best Actress in Cannes Film Festival? For half of the film she was driving with no expressions or dialog, and even when she spoke she was not convincing. All the actors beside Makram Khoury and Natalie Portman (she was not brilliant) were really bad! But I would say the worst of them all is the director, I did not see any other film he did, but if all his films are like this one, then he should start doing something else!

Sorry if my English is not perfect!

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