A Palestinian family with five children lives outside town, near Israeli settlements. Samia, the wife, wants to leave; so does one teen son. Mohammad, the patriarch, is adamant that he is staying. Two of his adolescent children want to fight. His is the passive aggression of non-violent witness. Israeli soldiers burst into the home, taking over the second floor. At night, the family is locked in the living room. We see the effects of the occupation on the children and on the ... (Full plot summary below)
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A Palestinian family with five children lives outside town, near Israeli settlements. Samia, the wife, wants to leave; so does one teen son. Mohammad, the patriarch, is adamant that he is staying. Two of his adolescent children want to fight. His is the passive aggression of non-violent witness. Israeli soldiers burst into the home, taking over the second floor. At night, the family is locked in the living room. We see the effects of the occupation on the children and on the marriage. Through the eyes of Miriam, the older daughter, we watch the soldiers from her hiding place. Jamal, the eldest son, sets a trap with a grenade. Characters call upon Allah. Chaos and death are close.
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| Philadelphia City PaperSam AdamsSuccessfully recasts the Israeli occupation on a purely domestic level. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film possesses a quiet but powerful tension. |
| OffoffoffJoshua TanzerSaverio Costanzo has a two-state solution for the Middle East -- one state in the living room and the other in the bedroom. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatPresents the ordeal suffered by a Muslim family in Palestine when their home is occupied by enemy Israeli soldiers. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezIt looks and feels like Session 9 but it rattles the soul like The Gate of the Sun. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThough Private has its share of problems, the story is compelling enough that we're willing overlook such deficiencies. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonAn often effective vérité slash of agitprop. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorSelected as Italy's entry for best foreign film at this year's Academy Awards, Private was disqualified for not being predominantly in Italian. A pity, since this meticulously nonpartisan film, even as it makes the case for passive resistance, shows what devastating lack of appeal the strategy has for young Palestinians. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlA sketchy but compelling Italian movie about Middle East power struggles. |
| New York PostKyle SmithIsraeli soldiers are cast as the killers, while the Palestinians are the hapless bunnies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is thus reimagined as "Bambi." |
