SummaryAt a remote Israeli desert outpost, Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar), best friends and pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv. The indolent twosome are watched over by their aspiring senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who dr... Read More
Directed By:Talya Lavie
Written By:Talya Lavie
Zero Motivation
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Generally Favorable
69
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Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
83% Positive
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Oct 31, 2014
91
An absorbing office saga and diverting dark comedy, Zero Motivation is a surprisingly insightful coming-of-age tale, utilizing the milieu of the military to look at desire, loneliness, identity, fitting in and many aspects of everyday complex female life.
Dec 4, 2014
88
Like classic military comedies from “Catch-22” to “M*A*S*H,” Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation offers its own appealing blend of irreverence and absurdism.
Dec 15, 2014
80
The mundane becomes absurd, and the hilarious turns to hilariously gruesome. Sometimes that humor underlines the characters’ struggles.
Dec 18, 2014
70
Lavie, who directs and wrote the film, actually has more in mind than a comedy of errors. But the dramatic bits don't quite gel, and the film never quite takes off the way she apparently would like it to. Yet it's the kind of movie that offers small rewards along the way.
Dec 2, 2014
70
Zero Motivation never stops being sharply funny, and there’s scarcely a hint of didacticism in its depiction of female soldiers who are essentially treated as a secretarial pool, so bored that they have to invent tasks to perform and create melodrama from scratch.
Oct 31, 2014
63
Zero Motivation is refreshingly casual in the depiction of its female-centric environment, but the freshness of its performances is often compromised by a directorial impulse to reduce the female experience to spiteful girl fights, virginal malaise, and bunk-bed antagonism.
Dec 2, 2014
50
Everything looks authentic, at least on the surface, from the desert dust to the messy desks and the sad, barren barracks. The characters, however, are largely cartoons, and their day-to-day exchanges are as vaguely defined as their interior lives.
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Aug 17, 2015
10
This film was a delightful surprise at the TriBeCa Film Festival. It is the best movie I have seen in a long time. It ran the gamut of emotions, was sincerely amusing, and had cohesive performances from the strong female leads. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has a chance to see it. One of the few DVDs I have purchased this year. Don't want to give away anything, just take my word and give this film a chance to win you over! You'll want to be an NCO of some variety after watching this film.
Production Company:
- July August Productions
Release Date:Dec 3, 2014
Duration:1 h 37 m
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 6 Wins & 12 Nominations
Tribeca Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Odesa International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
