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Hitpartzut X (2010) is a Hebrew,Arabic,Russian movie. Eitan Zur has directed this movie. Nahman Ashkenazi,Abraham Celektar,Ruth Geller,Suhel Haddad are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2010. Hitpartzut X (2010) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
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Hitpartzut X (2010) Reviews
Modest in scope but very well executed
Orna Porat is a grande dame of Israeli theater, and Yossi Pollak too is at the top of the A list: when mounting an ancient or modern masterpiece, these are the actors you would trust on stage. It's seldom either of them takes a film role these days, so NAOMI is already an event of significance. The title character is a beautiful young woman-- the dialog occasionally reminds us how beautiful she is, and how mysterious-- but her role, as acted by Melanie Peres, does not contribute a weight that counterbalances the expressively sagging faces of the veteran actors; it is easier to consider that the movie is all about how she affects the others than that it is even partly about her as a person. What drives the movie is the tension of the situations besetting Pollak (including possible criminal suspicion), with some blackly comic relief that as often as not involves Porat as his sharp-tongued mother. The Hebrew title of the movie is, more or less, ERUPTION OF X, referring to a cosmic phenomenon that occurs when celestial bodies are too close together. Aside from the idea that eruptions may happen when people are too close together, the movie seems to have no grand theme, and it also has no grand cinematic effects. Aside from the benefit of detail as the camera rests on the actors' faces, this is a movie that would lose nothing on the small screen and for many minutes at a time could even just as well be on the stage. But the suspense and uneasiness build quickly and remain well sustained, the story is tight, the impressive talents of the major actors are not wasted, and if I were the mogul with the budgets, I would think seriously about planning a Hollywood remake of this tense vehicle for veteran actors.
Attempted Chabrol
Up to and during the scene husband-confronts-wife's-lover the movie follows closely Chabrol's "La femme infidèle" As imitation goes, not a very good one; to begin with, the actors do not match the charisma and personality of their French counterparts. The problem begins with the killing of the lover by the husband (old flabby husband overpowers young, fit lover with bare hands, lover doesn't see it coming, audience does). This is followed by the the disposal of the body, which strains credibility to the limit. In fact, credibility doesn't seem to be an objective of the script. There is a bit of black comedy in charge of the husband's mother, which is perhaps the only redeeming feature of the film. The husband is an astrophysicist and lectures on cosmic collisions: when a star comes too close to another a thermonuclear reaction ensues. Yes, we get the point.