...a stylish, bleak film noir where men either have little hope or so much money it has perverted their souls.
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08/20/06
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
... little substance and lots of fashionable cynicism.
08/12/06
Outside the setup of its central stunt, it's pretty forgettable.
08/12/06
Although it's likely too stark for everyone, 13 Tzameti offers a mind-blowing experience for anyone willing to go along for the ride.
08/10/06
Top Critic...a tight, focussed suspense film...forcefully direct and simple...
08/10/06
That calmness -- and the work of both Babluani brothers is weirdly stilled and mature, already devoid of the need to show off -- serves only to thicken the horror.
08/07/06
13 Tzameti is certainly nightmarish, but it's the kind of nightmare that fades instead of lingering on in the memory.
08/05/06
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
Possibly the greatest French sports film ever made!
08/04/06
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
A taught thriller all the better for somber and distraught grayscale photography
07/30/06
An icy plunge into the dark depths of the human mind.
07/28/06
You can almost smell the nervous sweat running down these men's backs. You can almost feel the damp.
07/28/06
Starts slowly but builds, Hitchcock-style, to a terrifying crescendo.
07/28/06
The resulting jolts add up to one unforgettably surreal nightmare.
07/28/06
13 Tzameti flaunts a grim sense of the absurd that suggests a French new wave film infected with a virulent strain of Eastern European nihilism.
07/27/06
Top CriticBy the end ... audiences will need mass manicures.
07/27/06
While Hostel reeked of xenophobia, 13 notes that often the boogeymen are in our own backyards, and that most are within a few paychecks of falling prey to them.
07/27/06
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
As a brutal metaphor for the global economy, 13 Tzameti takes care of business; its assertion that desperate means require desperate measures naturally extends to the hair-trigger world of genre filmmaking.
07/25/06
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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