Product Details

• Actors: Alex Menglet, Noah Taylor, Romane Bohringer, Emily Hamilton, Sophie Lee
• Directors: Richard Lowenstein
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: 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: January 1, 2005
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006ZUJ8M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,446 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND - DVD Movie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a really really good view, March 11, 2007

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Robert Whitaker Sirignano "Robert WS--" (Directly above the center of the earth) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (DVD)

Based on the strange and very interesting book of "ugly roomers" (of the same name as the film), this doesn't have all the funny hell raising laughs brought by the book, but the tone and the flavor are there.

There's no other film like this, and it's hard to put forth reasons why it's so good. It often approaches humiliation, often angry, often stupid, often...stirred with a chainsaw...blended into an integrated whole.

An overlooked masterpiece. No other way to describe it. The paperback it was based on often fetches big bucks, and that's worth a reading or three.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Film, March 23, 2008

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This review is from: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (DVD)

After we watched this film and thoroughly enjoyed it, my wife said, "I'd like to see how you're going to review this." Um, yeah.

Well, I hung my four stars on it. That's a great start. Then I read the other reviews here. I see most of them had the same problem, but one reviewer led off with cane toads and golf clubs and pretty much nailed it.

You can see all the awards, every one well-deserved. It was faithful to the tone of the novel, which my wife has read and which I'll find. And then you can read all these reviews and still wonder what this movie is about. That's the beauty of it. You'll love it.

"I want something different," you think, meaning different in a good way. Well, you found it.

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 and 1/2 stars, December 20, 2011

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D. Homsher (Lancaster, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (DVD)

I did not connect with this film for the following reasons:

1. There was a lot of talk that seemed to bog down the pace. Granted, cultural and literary references were plentiful and cleverly integrated, but I too often found the dialogue tedious.

2. Many of the plot situations were over the top and just not that funny to me---a tribal roasting interrupted by skin heads??? I felt these silly plot gags were at odds with the often deadpan pseudo(?) intellectual dialogue. The tone of the movie veered from one extreme to the other.

3. There really was not much of a plot, which is ok with me if there is sufficient character development. But I didn't find much character development here either. Lots of characters, but what do we learn about any of them? Not much. I saw them more as "type." It was hard for me to care about watching any of them.