Product Details

• Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Maya Maron, Yehuda Levi, Hani Furstenberg, Itay Turgeman
• Directors: Joseph Cedar
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: Hebrew
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HEZEUU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,200 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Campfire" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innocence lost and found . . ., April 12, 2008

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Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Campfire (DVD)

This slice-of-life story set in 1981, a relatively peaceful time for Israel, points innocently to its quagmire of troubles today as it concerns a middle-aged widow trying to join a group of West Bank settlers. Meanwhile, a match-making friend begins introducing her to eligible bachelors, and her two daughters are having boyfriend troubles of their own. The tightly knit plot skillfully interweaves all of these storylines, each taking unexpected and sometimes troubling turns. Besides the stories it has to tell, the film has much on its mind, as director Joseph Cedar exposes mother and daughters to the callow, chauvinistic, sometimes brutal behavior of the males around them. In its way, the film has something to say about innocence, the loss of innocence, and self-interest that masquerades as innocence.

Cedar has touched on the theme of settlements before in his first feature "Time of Favor," which offers a more troubling view of the current situation, where religious and political extremism drive a plot among yeshiva students to "liberate" the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This time, the settlers are represented as self-righteous, self-serving, and pathetically comic. A mild-mannered bus driver (played wonderfully by Moshe Ivgy), who sleeps on Sabbath and has no apparent political affiliations, is slowly revealed as the moral center of the film. There is maybe more here than the film is able to completely resolve by the final frame, but the inconclusiveness does not make it less believable.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the personal eclipses the political, January 31, 2007

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Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Campfire (DVD)

Set in 1981, Rachel Gerlik is a forty-two year old widow with two adolescent girls, struggling to move beyond grief. Feeling very much isolated, it is her "life dream," she says, to join the founders of a new settlement in the West Bank. The selection committee is dubious about including a single woman, and her two girls accuse her of "sucking up" to them in her neediness to be wanted. Esti, her older daughter, acts out with an Israeli soldier, while the younger Tami gets more attention than she bargained for at the settlement's youth group bonfire. Into this mix steps Yossi, an older bachelor-bus driver who also describes himself as a left-out, overlooked outsider. When Tami's reputation is publicly smeared, Rachel's stock sinks even lower with the settlement's leaders. In the end, she spurns the settlers in favor of her outsider status with Yossi and her two girls. Campfire is a personal rather than a political film, although some Israelis have criticized writer-director Joseph Cedar for smearing his Zionist family roots. The film won five Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel's entry for the 2004 Academy Award competition as Best Foreign-Language. In Hebrew with English subtitles.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An exhilirating film, June 3, 2007

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David Lence (Culver City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Campfire (DVD)

While this film is narrated by a woman, it is written and directed by a man, Joseph Cedar For those of you familiar with Israeli cinema, Mr. Cedar is also responsible for Time of Favor, a film which won six Israeli Oscars.

Campfire is careful to not portray Zionism in a cartoonish way, although I am sure many will disapprove. The characters are well drawn. The actors ave all appeared in other Israeli films, plays and television and are well respected. This is a film worth seeing.