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Campfire

Original title: Medurat Hashevet
  • 20042004
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 36m
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7.0/10
671
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127,837
26,677
Campfire (2004)
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The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
671
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
127,837
26,677
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    • Director
      • Joseph Cedar
    • Writer
      • Joseph Cedar
    • Stars
      • Michaela Eshet
      • Hani Furstenberg
      • Moshe Ivgy
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    • Director
      • Joseph Cedar
    • Writer
      • Joseph Cedar
    • Stars
      • Michaela Eshet
      • Hani Furstenberg
      • Moshe Ivgy
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    • 15User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 10 nominations

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    Michaela Eshet
    Michaela Eshet
    • Rachel Gerlik
    Hani Furstenberg
    Hani Furstenberg
    • Tami Gerlik
    Moshe Ivgy
    Moshe Ivgy
    • Yossi
    Maya Maron
    Maya Maron
    • Esti
    Assi Dayan
    Assi Dayan
    • Motkeh
    Oshri Cohen
    Oshri Cohen
    • Rafi
    Yehoram Gaon
    Yehoram Gaon
    • Moshe Weinstock
    Yehuda Levi
    Yehuda Levi
    • Yoel
    Avi Grainik
    Avi Grainik
    • Oded
    Idit Teperson
    Idit Teperson
    • Shula
    • (as Edith Teperson)
    Itay Turgeman
    Itay Turgeman
    • Gozlan
    Barak Lizork
    • Yaniv
    Danny Zahavi
    • Ilan
    Dina Senderson
    Dina Senderson
    • Inbal
    Ofer Seker
    • Yair
    Jonathan Bar-Giora
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    • Director
      • Joseph Cedar
    • Writer
      • Joseph Cedar
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    • Trivia
      Yehoram Gaon originally turned down the role of Moshe Weinstok, saying it's too small for someone who hadn't acted for quite a while. He changed his mind after director Joseph Cedar sent him a long list of Hollywood stars who made short appearances in various movies.
    • Goofs
      When Rachel comes home after her meeting with the founding committee, when Tammy has locked herself in her room and Rachel is talking to Esti in the Living Room, the shots of Rachel show her with her hands cupped over the top of a soda pop bottle, but the shots of Esti (from behind Rachel) show Rachel's hands cupped on her knapsack on the table.
    • Quotes

      [subtitled version]

      [first thing in the morning, Rachel walks into Esti's bedroom unannounced while Esti is still asleep]

      Rachel Gerlik: Esti, be careful not to walk barefoot here now.

      [Rachel drapes a towel over Esti's bedroom door]

      Esti Gerlik: [groggily waking up] What?

      [using a hammer, Rachel smashes the glass window on Esti's bedroom door]

      Esti Gerlik: [now wide awake] What are you doing?

      Rachel Gerlik: No one locks doors in my house. You want privacy? Get married.

      [Tami, hearing the commotion, walks by]

      Rachel Gerlik: [as Rachel sweeps up the broken glass] Tami, be careful not to walk barefoot here.

      Esti Gerlik: [yelling] Are you out of your mind? Are you a total psycho? What's wrong with you? You should be committed. I swear I'll call the police.

      Rachel Gerlik: [calmly] Tami, bring me the garbage can.

      Esti Gerlik: [yelling] Does this seem normal to you?

      Esti Gerlik: [to Tami, as she goes for the garbage can] Why are you helping this madwoman?

      Esti Gerlik: Think I care? I'll show you privacy.

      [Esti storms out of the bedroom to the living room and out onto the balcony]

      Esti Gerlik: [yelling at the top of her lungs outside] Help! There's a crazy woman here. Someone call the police! Help!

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    8/10
    Gut wrenching occasionally, biased consistently but altogether impressive
    The first question that popped in my head once the ending credits appeared, was- should I be offended?

    This movie, after all, deals with religious-Zionists and I am a movie-buff secular so maybe the depiction of this much maligned (for no justifiable reason, in my humble opinion) sector was credible and not a slanderous attack. I believe I have reached a conclusion.

    Today, when a new rift in Israel is emerging over the implementation of the disengagement program lead by prime minister, Ariel Sharon, it's easy to relate to the 1981 struggle against the evacuation of the Sinai peninsula after the signing of the historical peace accord with Egypt.

    1981 found Tammy Gerlik (Hani Furstenberg in a wonderful performance) in a Jerusalemite neighborhood with her older sister and widowed mom who decides to move to a new settlement in the occupied territories with her circle of the religious, patriotic and unified but also hypocrite and mistrusting circle of friends. It also finds Tammy in her teenage years when romantic feelings and self-defining questioning begin to emerge. Her generally cheerful personality suffers a major setback when Tammy is nearly raped by a violent teenager with the cheering of his dubious "buddies". With a mother too self-absorbed, and "friends" that tag her as a promiscuous girl, she finds a soul mate in her rebellious sister that is alienated to her mother for abolishing her chance of privacy in a very boisterously funny scene that involves a hammer (can't elaborate, sorry).

    In the meantime, the mother, Rachel (Micaela Eshet, in a reasonably good but not much more, performance), is a 42 year old strong woman who had married too early and went through life without falling in love. While shunning as delicately as possible the courting of a highly renowned and severely boring, cantor, she forms a friendship with, Yossi, a bachelor bus driver/ultimate loser who has lost hope of ever conjugating (let alone, wed) an actual woman.

    With Yossi as a refuge from the pretense of a strong willed woman, Rachel realizes the true nature of her friends, the frailty of their loyalty and worst of all, their obsession of sweeping unflattering phenomena under the carpet, even at the grave price of perpetuating it for posterity.

    The movie is well acted, credibly written and even manages to give the audience the atmosphere of the early 80's when Israelis had one TV channel to watch, one telephone company and a strong sense of patriotism that is disparaged and demonetized by too many these days.

    Which brings me to my question in the beginning of this review, should I, the secular guy (who identifies with Yossi the bus driver more than he wishes), should be offended when the religious society is presented in a very critical manner.

    The answer to that question is simple: when you are offended on behalf of a grown up group for being disparaged, you might be disparaging it yourself by deciding for them how they should feel.

    I feel, personally, that the director, Yosef Cedar (who grew up in a religious background but is pretty estranged to it, according to his own testimony) decided to "indict" his origins. As a result, the viewer is deprived from an unbiased impression of one of the most enigmatic, controversial and riveting sector in contemporary Israeli society.

    The movie won as best film in the Israeli Oscar competition and its victory was outshone by the fact that the movie "sof haolam smola" which was one of the most popular films in Israeli history, wasn't even nominated in any of the major categories.

    Unfair representation of "Sof haolam smola" in the Israeli Oscar robbed the movie of the buzz it could have generated. Also, the film's unfair representation of a certain sector in the Israeli society left me questioning its antagonism, rather than enjoy its undeniable qualities. Qualities it hones in abundance.

    8.5 out of 10 in my FilmOmeter.
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    • Feb 4, 2005

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    • Release date
      • September 9, 2005 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Israel
    • Official site
      • official site (Israel)
    • Languages
      • Hebrew
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Alrededor de la fogata
    • Production company
      • Cinema Post Production Ltd.
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $34,835
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,598
      • Sep 11, 2005
    • Gross worldwide
      • $34,835
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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