A thriller of starkly economic proportions.
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01/14/06
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 CriticAstonishingly accomplished debut feature that combines Hitchcockian suspense with a showdown whose unflinching attitude to violence will pin you to the seat.
04/01/06
Top CriticThe 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
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
For a movie without color, there's very little here that's black and white.
09/21/06
The Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.
09/21/06
In a way, 13 (Tzameti) is a nearly gore-free take on Hostel, another film ... about desperate attempts to survive in a place that's simultaneously culturally and geographically alien.
07/27/06
A gritty, high attrition-rate mindbender guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to its shocking finale.
02/09/07
Demands to be seen for the juice it manages to wring out of its central gambit but mostly for the directorial career it hints is on the horizon.
08/25/06
13 Tzameti does suffer from a weak and even lazy conclusion, but that doesn't stop 90 minutes that come before it. This truly is deserving of being unforgettable.
10/13/07
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
[Babluani] creates a fear so bottomless, a bad dream so plausible that its hooks tear into your consciousness.
09/07/06
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02/27/09
The earned payoff is an all-too-believable shocker.
10/12/06
The central betting game makes up for the contrived pretensions of trying to make it look like a black and white classic.
08/04/06
Pays homage to Michael Cimino's 'Deerhunter' in evoking high tension from a game of Russian roulette.
07/13/06
Shot in black and white, '13' maintains a strong disconsolate tone, one in which the world feels barren and uncaring.
04/10/06
This is one independent hit that could probably benefit from big-budget studio treatment.
09/08/06
It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
11/24/06
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
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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