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Sweet Mud

Play trailer Poster for Sweet Mud 2006,  1h 41m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 83% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 89% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
83% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 89% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) lives on a progressive kibbutz with his older brother, Eyal, (Pini Tavger) and their mother, Miri (Ronit Yudkevitz). Miri is mentally ill, has spent time in an institution and is not particularly liked by the other members of their commune. Things get even worse when Miri invites her boyfriend (Henri Garcin), a non-Jew, to move in. Meanwhile, Dvir is busy studying for his Bar Mitzvah, which proves to be a particularly arduous task.

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Bruce DeMara Toronto Star Jun 15, 2007
3/4
An appealing coming-of-age tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity. Go to Full Review
Rick Groen Globe and Mail Jun 15, 2007
2/4
If [director] Shaul means for his indictment to have some contemporary resonance, to hint at conformist pressures in the current Israeli state, he fails to give us any of the blocks needed to build that thesis. Go to Full Review
Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter Jan 19, 2007
This is a film from the heart, from a firsthand familiarity that yields conflicted emotions over the gap between an ideal and its realization. Go to Full Review
Hannah Brown Jerusalem Post Mar 22, 2016
The plot may sound familiar, but director/writer Dror Shaul makes it fresh with his vivid and often bitterly funny depiction of the film's setting, a kibbutz in the 1970s. Go to Full Review
Daniel M. Kimmel The Jewish Advocate Nov 9, 2007
If the film is an indictment of anything it is how the collective experience of the kibbutz is at odds with family loyalties. Go to Full Review
Prairie Miller WBAI Radio Oct 19, 2007
Sweet Mud holds within its delicately wrought, keenly insightful grasp, the illuminating convergence of political reality and the individual in a personal struggle to transcend the constraints of the human condition. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Dror Shaul

Director

Tomer Steinhof

Dvir

Henri Garcin

Stephan

Shai Avivi

Avraham

Gal Zaid

Shimshon

Sharon Zuckerman

Etty

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Synopsis Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) lives on a progressive kibbutz with his older brother, Eyal, (Pini Tavger) and their mother, Miri (Ronit Yudkevitz). Miri is mentally ill, has spent time in an institution and is not particularly liked by the other members of their commune. Things get even worse when Miri invites her boyfriend (Henri Garcin), a non-Jew, to move in. Meanwhile, Dvir is busy studying for his Bar Mitzvah, which proves to be a particularly arduous task.
Director
Dror Shaul
Screenwriter
Dror Shaul
Production Co
Cinephil
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 41m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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