Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.... (Full plot summary below)
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Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
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| CNNBrian LowryDirected by Bartlett Sher and adapted by the play's author J.T. Rogers, "Oslo" serves as a haunting portrayal of what was, and a sobering reflection on conditions as they currently exist. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAn engrossing, unfailingly lucid account of a momentous political breakthrough that interrupted a decades-long impasse. Few will be unmoved by its sorrowful timeliness. |
| The A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiWhat results is a very Western-specific view of this conflict and of the Oslo Accords that doesn’t embody the “both sides” approach the film ostensibly intends to provide. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeRogers’ stage play is a smart, mature piece of writing, but one that transfers rather clumsily to the small screen, in part because its makers don’t show quite the same confidence in their audience’s intelligence. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussOslo ultimately acknowledges that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is anything but resolved, and shows why even this first, limited step toward settling it was so immensely difficult. Whether we’re in the mood to find it entertaining right now remains in dispute. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyThe timing of Oslo is less than ideal, current events being what they are. The framing, too, is blinkered and naïve. |
| User ReviewShazbaaaWell acted and terrific depiction of events leading up the final handshake between the PLO and Israel. It was eye opening as it was hopeful that peace can be had in the middle east and beyond. Once you get the right people in the room at the right time and place anything is possible. |
| User ReviewQuinn22I spent 3 years on Capital Hill working on the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Many of is were.convinced the Oslo Accords were the last great hope for peace between the two peoples. Watching the movie I found myself weeping several times as I think would could have been. The movie itself is excellent, on point a d gets the passion a d different points of view perfectly. This film should be used in history class as a vital way of showing what could have neen. |
| User ReviewTVJerryA husband/wife team of Norwegian diplomats (Andrew Scott/Ruth Wilson) hosted secret back-channel negotiations between a small group of Israeli and Palestinian representatives that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords. This adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play has a solid theatrical structure with lots of small scenes, each with a conflict that must be resolved before the next one. Since it’s all talk, it’s vital to have a strong cast and this group succeeds in creating convincingly committed characters. The play’s director, Bartlett Sher, is at the film’s helm and he manages to make the dialogue and disagreements involving. Considering the subject matter, it’s a fascinating peek behind the (somewhat fictionalized) scene, but more as a historical curiosity than a stirring drama. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) With the birth of hermeneutic philosophy in the last century (Gadamer, not Schleiermacher), it was debated whether we were granted the opportunity to dialogue / bargain / negotiate / understand each other or if we were condemned to polemical conflict. "Oslo" could have been a great example of this, whereas it leaves such an issue in the background, basically just on the credits. |
