SummaryA colorful and very contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This unique movie, is a non traditional attempt to understand the role that is still played by the past in the lives of Israeli and German young people. (IDP Films)
Directed By:Eytan Fox
Written By:Gal Uchovsky, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Andreas Struck
Walk on Water
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65
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71% Positive
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83
At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go.
75
Remains gripping until the final 15 minutes, when a series of sudden, unjustified plot twists leave us shaking our heads.
70
Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water -- or to kill with impunity and without repercussions -- doesn't exist.
67
Though its characters aren't terribly complex, and its plot holds few surprises, the screenplay (in English, German, and Hebrew) amounts to a worthy treatise on the need to forgo revenge.
63
Despite the film's pat plot turns and instructional tone, there are moments of charm, thanks to the fetching, committed cast.
58
Despite its flaws, Walk on Water is a sometimes engaging story of emotional opposites who become mystifyingly attracted to each other.
40
Walk on Water makes you wonder what the Mossad is teaching its field agents these days.
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71% Positive
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Mar 4, 2011
9
A good example of the current (i.e. post-2000) manner of treating gay characters in feature films. They're there, in the same way that straight men and women and the old and minority groups and children are there: all part of the palette drawn on by the writer and director, but not central to the action *because* they're gay. Convincing performances by all involved in this movie, which is very much worth seeing; amazingly for action films these days, there's not much violence and not much nudity.
Production Company:
- Israeli Film Fund
- Lama Films
- Fond Européen Média
- HOT
- Lama Productions
- United King Films
Release Date:Mar 4, 2005
Duration:1 h 43 m
Rating:R
Tagline:He was trained to hate until he met the enemy
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Washington Jewish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
