Capernaum R
It takes courage to hope.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.39:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 26, 2019
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Columbia Pictures / Screen Classics by Request
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Zain Al Rafeea | |
| Directed by | Nadine Labaki | |
| Composition by | Khaled Mouzanar |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Capernaum is much more than a reductionist vision about the extreme vulnerability of children in an atmosphere of extreme poverty. [Full Review in Spanish]
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La Jornada
Rating: B --
Co-writer and director Nadine Labaki shoots "Capernaum" with a fluent, documentary-like realism.
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Detroit News
No doubt it is a tongue-in-cheek name, but it is true that Capharnaüm is about many things: corruption and racism, refugees, stolen childhood, the moral weakness of adults and the difficulty in apportioning blame.
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ABC News (Australia)
Rating: 3/4 --
It's essential viewing for the ways in which it illuminates brutally hard lives many of us could otherwise not imagine, and for the craft of its nonprofessional performers.
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Chicago Reader
A tough-to-watch neorealist drama from Nadine Labaki, Capharnaüm (or Chaos) captures the nascent fury of twelve-year-old Zain (a brave performance by Zain Al Rafeea), a Beirut slumdweller suing his parents for giving birth to him
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Firstpost
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Zain, estimated age 12 and serving five years' jail time "because I stabbed a sonofabitch," is suing his neglectful parents for giving birth to him.
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Nobody's Reading This But Me
It's a very harrowing portrait... Zain Al Rafeea is amazing.
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Description by OLDIES.com:
Zain, a gutsy streetwise child, flees his negligent parents. He survives on the streets through his wits while taking care of Ethiopian refugee and her baby son. After being arrested and put in jail, Zain finally seeks justice against his parents in court for the crime of giving him life.
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- UPC: 043396553224
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