Mon trésor 2004

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Her movie is indeed ambitious and her goals admirable. But sometimes it seems more position paper than cinema. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A work of exceptional subtlety and is all the more captivating and heart-rending for being so. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Yedaya 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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: 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. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: In the Israeli film Or, about a prostitute and her teenage daughter, both clothes and humanity are stripped away with impunity. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Ms. Yedaya may have made a subtler and more interesting film about prostitution than she originally intended. Read more

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Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Consistently engaging, non-judgmental and cumulatively powerful two-hander marks a noteworthy feature debut for Israeli helmer Keren Yedaya. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: With a cool head and level gaze, Keren Ye-daya's stark first feature attempts a Bressonian trajectory of tragic inevitability. Read more