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Directed by | Amos Gitai |
Written by | Amos Gitai Marie-José Sanselme |
Produced by | Jean-Baptiste Dupont Cyril Colbeau-Justin Sylvie Pialat Francesco Di Silvio Amos Gitai |
Cinematography | Eric Gautier |
Edited by | Yuval Orr Tahel Sofer Isabelle Ingold |
Music by | Amit Poznansky |
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Distributed by | Le Pacte (France) |
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Running time | 153 minutes [1] |
Countries | Israel France |
Languages | Hebrew English |
Budget | $4.6 million [2] |
Rabin, the Last Day is a 2015 Israeli-French docudrama political thriller film [3] [4] directed by Amos Gitai. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. [5]
The film depicts the events surrounding the final days and assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Rabin, the Last Day has a score of 61% on Metacritic. [6] The Playlist gave the film a grade of B+, describing it as "deeply absorbing and intelligent". [7] The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "benefits from fine technical work throughout, from Eric Gautier's sober cinematography to a soulful musical theme by Amit Poznansky". [4] Jonathan Romney of Screendaily considered the film as one of Gitai's "most ambitious and compelling works yet", noting that the film's "slow, deliberate approach makes for a detached air which allows Gitai to show events with distinct clarity". [8]
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