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Sweet Mud

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Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) lives on a progressive kibbutz with his older brother, Eyal, (Pini Tavger) and their mother, Miri (Ronit Yudkevitz). Miri is mentally ill, has spent time in an institution and is not particularly liked by the other members of their commune. Things get even worse when Miri invites her boyfriend (Henri Garcin), a non-Jew, to move in. Meanwhile, Dvir is busy studying for his Bar Mitzvah, which proves to be a particularly arduous task.

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Bruce DeMara Toronto Star An appealing coming-of-age tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity. Rated: 3/4 Jun 15, 2007 Full Review Rick Groen Globe and Mail If [director] Shaul means for his indictment to have some contemporary resonance, to hint at conformist pressures in the current Israeli state, he fails to give us any of the blocks needed to build that thesis. Rated: 2/4 Jun 15, 2007 Full Review Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter This is a film from the heart, from a firsthand familiarity that yields conflicted emotions over the gap between an ideal and its realization. Jan 19, 2007 Full Review Hannah Brown Jerusalem Post The plot may sound familiar, but director/writer Dror Shaul makes it fresh with his vivid and often bitterly funny depiction of the film's setting, a kibbutz in the 1970s. Mar 22, 2016 Full Review Daniel M. Kimmel The Jewish Advocate If the film is an indictment of anything it is how the collective experience of the kibbutz is at odds with family loyalties. Nov 9, 2007 Full Review Prairie Miller WBAI Radio Sweet Mud holds within its delicately wrought, keenly insightful grasp, the illuminating convergence of political reality and the individual in a personal struggle to transcend the constraints of the human condition. Oct 19, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Siempre es grato ver lo que hacen en otros países. Conocer su percepción del mundo. Esta cinta, al menos para mí, es tan rica en su construcción, adaptada en la tradición de estos Kipputz que personalmente no conocía y que parece ser como un experimento de sociedad utópica (comunista...el comunismo no existe) y lo que puede llegar a provocar. Además, los personajes fueron exquisitamente bien dibujados y me parece grandioso el trabajo que Dror Shaul hizo con Tomer y su personaje...tan lleno de matices, tan enternecedor, tan lleno de luz en un mundo nublado. Una fotografía delicada, viva, hermosa y una historia que te parte en dos...cuando todos deciden callar el loco es el que habla y tiene la razón aunque para los demás sea locura...... Gran cinta. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The film is about the life of a family living in Israel on a kibbutz. Dvir youngest son plays a strong character. I didn't know anything about Kibbutz. Now I know. What a sad story and sad that people were there. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member A heartbreaking coming of age tale, where a boy trying to secretly orchestrate his mentally ill mother's love life fails to avert tragedy. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is disturbing a few levels, but now I understand what a kubbutz is which i didnt before. i did not like this movie at all besides that. gross, horrible and deoressing thats all i have to say but id warn you not to watch it or youll be scar-ed i still have flash backs and it creeps me out. :P Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member ok, the film starts with the boy watching the kibbutz janitor getting a blow job from a cow... then the scene in which the guy kills the boy's dog and puts his body in the fridge... the scene in wich the boy sees his mom having an orgy with a bunch of guys...his mom was very disturbing, it's painful to to watch this boy try to make his mom get back to normal... so overall this is a very disturbing movie....i guess i'll never be the same after watching this movie, my innocence is gone... Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member A movie that got stuck in my head, deep, layered and beautiful Thank you Tor and Buster filmfestival.. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) lives on a progressive kibbutz with his older brother, Eyal, (Pini Tavger) and their mother, Miri (Ronit Yudkevitz). Miri is mentally ill, has spent time in an institution and is not particularly liked by the other members of their commune. Things get even worse when Miri invites her boyfriend (Henri Garcin), a non-Jew, to move in. Meanwhile, Dvir is busy studying for his Bar Mitzvah, which proves to be a particularly arduous task.
Director
Dror Shaul
Screenwriter
Dror Shaul
Production Co
Cinephil
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 41m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital