SummaryFor many Israelis, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 marked a grim turning point for their country. In the words of the commission set up to investigate the murder, "Israeli society [would] never be the same again. As a democracy, political assassination was not part of our culture." In the eyes of even more people, the mu... Read More
Directed By:Amos Gitai
Written By:Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Rabin, the Last Day
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
56% Positive
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Jan 29, 2016
88
Frequently horrifying and never less than absorbing, Rabin, the Last Day is a meticulously observant portrait of a broken society.
Feb 4, 2016
80
It’s no ordinary movie: Rabin, the Last Day is a disorienting mixture of drama, documentary and meticulous re-creation, and very little of it takes place on the last day of Rabin’s life.
Jan 29, 2016
75
The overall film is a mix of “The Thin Blue Line” and Costa-Gavras’ “Z.” At times overemphatic (no one will ever accuse Gitai of holding too much back), this docu-thriller is also agonizingly suspenseful, despite the foreordained conclusion.
Jan 25, 2016
63
Its vantage point too loosely assembles an argument by focusing, almost obsessively, on reassembling a tangible timeline of events.
Jan 26, 2016
60
By glamorizing struggle and ideology across the Israeli-Jewish political spectrum, it once more invites identification with only half of those locked in the conflict Rabin was trying to solve.
Sep 19, 2015
60
Gitai has chosen stylistic cinema over propaganda, and he is a director who regularly gets bogged down a bit in form.
Jan 27, 2016
50
The movie is almost literally a trial to watch, demonstrating all the passion and excitement of an unedited C-SPAN broadcast.
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Production Company:
- LGM Productions
- Les Films du Worso
- France 2 Cinéma
- Orange Studio
- Hamon Productions
- AGAV Films
- Cinéfeel Prod
- SDD
- Indie Sales
- United King Films
- Canal+
- France Télévisions
- L'Aide aux cinémas du monde
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
- Institut français
- Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
- The Cinema Project
- Leon Recanati Foundation
- The Cultural Administratiion
- Israel Film Council
- Ministry of Culture and Sport
- Citrullo International
Release Date:Jan 29, 2016
Duration:2 h 33 m
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
