Product Details

• Actors: Limor Goldstein, Robert Hoenig, Michael Moshonov, Yonathan Alster, Shmuel Vilojni
• Directors: Raphael Nadjari
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Hebrew
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KINO VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001PJRAQ2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,992 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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TEHILIM - DVD Movie

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4.0 out of 5 stars The aftershocks of losing a father, February 22, 2011

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Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tehilim (DVD)

I've been on a great run of movies out of Israel lately (more on that later) and I happened to pick this one up recently, not knowing much about it.

"Tehilim" (95 min.; originally released in 2007) brings a deceptive initial 15 min. opening, in which we watch an average Jewish family in Jerusalem go about its business. Then one day, the dad, taking his 2 sons to school, gets into a strange car accident, sends his oldest son out for help, and upon the son's return to the scene of the accident, the dad is missing. We don't know know why or how. The rest of the movie brings the struggles of the wife and her sons, trying to adjust to a new life with a missing father. The movie focuses on the oldest son, who's (I'm guessing) 17 or so, trying to do the best he can, feeling depressed about the mysterious loss of his father. There is no happy ending, where everything is somehow explained or resolved.

This movie made quite a spash at the Cannes Film Festival, and it's easy to see why. Great acting all around, for one. If you like mainstream Hollywood movies, this is not for you. If on the other hand, you like challenging foreign/indie movies, then by all means check this out. And if you are looking for other great Israeli movies, let me just mention Lemon Tree, Or My Treasure, Free Zone, For My Father, Seven Minutes in Heaven, and of course last Fall's theatrical release Lebanon.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Tehilim, May 11, 2009

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This review is from: Tehilim (DVD)

I'm just not feeling it! The acting was good, it was realistic , but I just kept waiting to have the story all lead up to something, anything, it left me hanging. The end was really disappointing , it just did not tie loose ends together... so the mother gets the necessary paperwork to be able to support her children, so what? it was just plain disappointing. The movie lack "life." I certainly don't recommend this one. It's like someone forgot to add spices to the meal. BLAND. BLAND. Forget about it.