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06/24/06
Or (My Treasure) (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:20
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Prostitution and its effect on a mother-daughter relationship are told in a naturalistic and nonjudgmental style, building to a powerful conclusion.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Keren Yedaya's directorial debut, OR (MY TREASURE), tells of a complex mother-daughter relationship in modern-day Tel-Aviv, Israel. Or (Dana Ivgy) is a 16-year-old girl who does all she can to... [More]
Starring: Ronit Elkabetz, Dana Ivgy, Meshar Cohen, Katia Zimbris
Director: Keren Yedaya
Reviews for Or (My Treasure)
Top CriticYedaya is respectful and sensitive of everyone in Or's life and creates a beautiful, complex and rich relationship between mother and daughter...
09/15/05
Detail after detail, Yedaya charts the emotional push-pull between daughter and mother and their internal turmoils.
09/15/05
A worthy downer, marred only by a queasy feel of exploitation in the final frames. In Yedaya's world, nobody gets off easy, including the audience.
09/15/05
Her movie is indeed ambitious and her goals admirable. But sometimes it seems more position paper than cinema.
08/05/05
Yedaya's starkly photographed first feature is as much a social statement as a character study.
07/15/05
Its broken heart of gold is in the right place.
07/15/05
Top CriticA work of exceptional subtlety and is all the more captivating and heart-rending for being so.
07/14/05
Top CriticYedaya drowns her characters in realist grit, a colorless screenplay and no score to speak of, rendering this open book of a movie alienating in all the wrong ways.
07/14/05
This movie seems to be meditating on the whys and hows of the spoiling process -- raising more questions than can possibly be answered, and in this sense, at least, far from dogmatic.
07/05/05
The problem is not that the film is depressing or that the characters are doomed, but that it lacks a broader political context to illuminate the problem of prostitution
07/04/05
Ms. Yedaya may have made a subtler and more interesting film about prostitution than she originally intended.
06/23/05
OR observes a moral and psychological distance form its characters that is maddeningly, heartbreakingly irresolute.
06/21/05
Yedaya's stark, rigorously naturalistic style recalls neorealism, but she tells her sad tale without an ounce of the usual sentimentality.
06/03/05
Even as Or joins an escort service and begins to follow in her mother's footsteps, Yedaya holds out hope that the girl will stop trying to rescue Mom and save herself.
06/03/05
A raw drama from Israeli director Keren Yedaya.
06/03/05
Acted and directed with uncommon psychological realism.
06/02/05
Or (My Treasure), a new Israeli movie, is a film about prostitution, but its models aren't other movies. Instead, the details of its heroine's work have the ugliness of real life.
06/01/05
With a cool head and level gaze, Keren Ye-daya's stark first feature attempts a Bressonian trajectory of tragic inevitability.
05/31/05
[Director/writer Keren] Yedaya offers no facile explanations, which may be frustrating to some, but bluntly thought provoking to others.
05/26/05
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