Princess
A modern fairytale
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2016
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Breaking Glass
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shira Haas & Ori Pfeffer | |
Directed by | Tali Shalom-Ezer | |
Screenwriting by | Tali Shalom-Ezer | |
Composition by | Ishai Adar |
Entertainment Reviews:
80%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 10
[S]trangely, thanks to Ms. Haas’s truly remarkable lead performance and Ms. Shalom-Ezer’s nuanced dialogue, Adar’s journey finally feels more like one of empowerment than victimization.
New York Times
Rating: B+ --
Princess is a difficult watch with subject matter destined to scare away potential viewers, but it handles this delicate topic with grace, imagination and power.
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Film School Rejects
Observing an unspeakable crime through a dreamy haze of adolescent confusion, the Israeli drama "Princess" turns a loving family home into an incubator of sexual curiosity.
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New York Times
Tali Shalom Ezer's debut feature is an absorbing, disturbingly seductive tale of underage sexuality.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
a film of heartbreaking pain as innocence is snuffed out Haaz's performance, at once vulnerable and hardened, is an assured piece of craftsmanship, encompassing confusion, desperation, a need for reassurance, and too wary to accept it.
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Killer Movie Reviews
Yes, child abuse is a real problem, one that is serious. But using child abuse to give direction to a movie's plot and to add titillation to an otherwise aimless film is insulting to its real victims and to the audience.
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Jerusalem Post
It may be that in her first feature, Shalom-Ezer set herself a distinguished, even bold agenda, but the task was beyond her reach.
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Haaretz
Product Description:
A 12-year-old girl named Adar (Shira Haas) lives with her mom (Keren Mor) and her mom's boyfriend (Ori Pfeffer), who make little attempt to hide their sex life from her. When Adar invites a homeless boy named Alan (Adar Zohar-Hanetz) to come live with them, the tensions in the house reach a boiling point. Written and directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer.
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