Astonishingly accomplished debut feature that combines Hitchcockian suspense with a showdown whose unflinching attitude to violence will pin you to the seat.
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04/01/06
13 Tzameti (2006)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:53
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.
Theatrical Release:06-01-2006
Synopsis: Twenty-two-year-old Sebastien (Georges Babluani) leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family constantly struggling to support them. While repairing the roof of a neighbor's house, he... [More]
Starring: George Babluani, Jean Pascal Bongard, Aurelien Recoing, Fred Ulysse
Director: Géla Babluani
Reviews for 13 Tzameti
Top CriticA thriller of starkly economic proportions.
01/14/06
Top CriticAn impressive debut by Georgian film-maker Gela Babluani - this is a beautifully shot, intensely gripping thriller that starts slowly but builds to a terrifically tense climax.
01/14/06
The terrible game of life is boiled down to its essentials in this new film from 26-year-old Georgian director Gela Babluani, who makes a stunning debut with what might yet become a classic.
01/14/06
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03/01/07
The first film by a 26-year-old director (Gela Babluani) that feels like the worst of what a 26-year-old director could make.
08/25/06
Get the picture? I didn’t.
08/23/06
Meant more as perverse gimmicky entertainment than in telling anything meaningful about the human condition.
01/14/09
Outside the setup of its central stunt, it's pretty forgettable.
08/12/06
This is one independent hit that could probably benefit from big-budget studio treatment.
09/08/06
... little substance and lots of fashionable cynicism.
08/12/06
13 (Tzameti) might seem allegorical, but it's too cynically concerned with what works as entertainment to offer larger truths about human existence.
09/08/06
The problem is, however, that it doesn't get to live in that world as successfully as one would hope, but instead is a common visitor with flashes of genius.
06/06/06
Aspires to the heights of a Jean-Pierre Melville or Fritz Lang but proves to be more along the mediocre lines of an M. Night Shyamalan.
03/20/06
French art thriller 13 Tzameti has a literal hair-trigger premise, yet it's so lacking in human dimensions that it creates virtually no suspense.
08/02/06
It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
11/24/06
The Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.
09/21/06
Latest News for 13 Tzameti
January 14, 2009:
13 Is Chriqui's Lucky Number 
Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of "13," the "13 Tzameti" remake that also stars Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, 50 Cent, Ray Winstone, Ben Gazzara, and Alex Skarsgard. More...
October 21, 2008:
Statham and Rourke Starring in 13 Tzameti Remake
Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, and 50 Cent have signed on to star in Gela Babluani's "13," a remake of the director's own French-language film "13 Tzameti." More...
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