1. Sweet Mud sheds new light on old kibbutz life - Ynetnews
13 nov 2006 · The autobiographical storyline draws on the writer/director Dror Shaul's memories of growing up on a kibbutz alongside his mentally unstable and ...
New Israeli film depicts dysfunctional system of early kibbutz life and its inability to act as a 'collective parent'
2. 'Sweet Mud' - The Jerusalem Post
28 sep 2006 · The director, who has spoken publicly about the film's autobiographical content, is still a young man, and there is a raw quality to the rage he ...
A poignant vision crafted in mud, writes Jerusalem Post film critic Hannah Brown.
3. Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at) | Reviews - Screen Daily
22 aug 2006 · Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud features the obligatorydisclaimer at the end of the credits about how none of the characters nor events are based on real ...
Dir/scr: Dror Shaul. Is-Ger-Fr-Jap.2006. 100minsDror Shaul's Sweet Mud features the obligatorydisclaimer at the end of the credits about how none of the characters nor events are based on real-life. But it does not take agenius to figure out that it is an intensely personal settling of accounts, anangry and bitter ...
4. Israeli film 'Sweet Mud' to compete at Sundance Festival - ISRAEL21c
Sweet Mud is a powerful coming-of-age drama about Dvir, a 12-year-old boy on a kibbutz in the 1970s with a psychologically unstable mother, and how the ...
Dror Shaul grew up looking forward to the weekly ‘film night’ on his kibbutz in southern Israel.
5. A hard look at life on the kibbutz - Los Angeles Times
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DROR SHAUL was more than a little apprehensive last September when he ventured to the Israeli kibbutz where he grew up to show residents his newest film.
6. Sweet Mud - Jewish Film Institute
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One of the most accomplished and celebrated international dramas of the year, Sweet Mud peels back the romantic mythology surrounding communal life on an Israeli kibbutz to tell a more personal, poignant story of thwarted love, adolescent awakening and human longings and failings. It is a deeply felt and beautifully photographed drama, worthy of all the acclaim it has received, both within Israel and abroad. It is 1974. On a kibbutz (collective farming community) in southern Israel, amid verdant, fertile landscapes, a boy is entering a troubled bar mitzvah year. Dvir (Tomer Steinhof) is 12; his father is dead, his brother is in the army and his mother Miri (the exquisite Ronit Yudkevitch) is emotionally fragile, nearly unstable. When her much-rumored boyfriend actually appears from Switzerland, things begin to look up for Dvir and Miri. Before long, however, a series of small but earthshaking conflicts will test the nascent family as well as the ability of the kibbutz community to take care of its most vulnerable members. Writer/director Dror Shaul drew from his own childhood growing up on kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel. “My film confronts the collective memory of a kibbutz, as a habitat to picturesque landscapes and nature’s magical scents, with my own private memories in which people are people, regardless of the ideology they may choose to wear.…My aim was to make a film about the longing for warmth and emotions, a longing for the illusion that we are n...
7. Sweet Mud (Adama meshuga'at) - Cineuropa
Israel, 1974. On a secluded kibbutz in the desert, 12-year-old Dvir realizes that his mother is mentally ill. In this closed community, Dvir must navigate ...
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8. Chosen Film: Sweet Mud - Heeb
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Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud is a touching, unsparing journey through a year in the life of a 12-year old boy, Dvir, on kibbutz Bet Gvurot. The film begins in 1974, but the kibbutz feels insulated from the geo-political tumult affecting the Middle East at the time. The biggest problem at Bet Gvurot is that someone is stealing popsicles and chocolate from the shared kitchen every night. That, and that the town would rather protect a cow-fucking dog-killer than try to help Dvir’s deteriorating widow of a mother. Living the socialist dream, all of the children on Bet Gvurot stay in the children’s house, away from their families. The kibbutz raises and educates them while their parents work the land. But Dvir is something of a renegade. He is constantly sneaking visits to his depressed mother, Miri. As a woman without a mate and a boy without a father, they represent a situation the kibbutz can’t provide for. The rest of the other members of the closed society are unbending in their system of governance. This stringency is what eventually breaks the relationship between Dvir and the kibbutz and, arguably, would lead to the end of the kibbutz as a mainstay of Israeli society. When anyone refers to this film as “controversial,” this is what they are referring to. In the past, to criticize the kibbutz has been like speaking ill of Zionism itself. Although the film’s misrepresentative trailer (see below) describes Sweet Mud as being based on a true story, by no means does the film...
9. Sweet Mud (2006) - Plex
In the 1970s, young Dvir Avni grapples with the clash of Kibbutz ideals and his mother's struggle for acceptance.
See AlsoKie Kitano 2018 ImagesIn the 1970s, young Dvir Avni grapples with the clash of Kibbutz ideals and his mother's struggle for acceptance. As he seeks belonging amidst societal pressures, Dvir's journey unveils profound truths about love, loyalty, and the quest for identity.
10. Sweet Mud ** - The Globe and Mail
15 jun 2007 · Sweet Mud seems intent on killing a myth long since dead. The time is the early seventies and the place a kibbutz in Israel, whose founding ...
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11. Sweet Mud (2006) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, ...
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
12. Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at). DVD. Format: PAL. Israel's best movie of ...
From Israel with Love! ... (A multisystem DVD has the ability to play dvd movies of different video standards including PAL. Also most computer DVDs can play PAL ...
Available in PAL (Europe) system ONLY (A multisystem DVD has the ability to play dvd movies of different video standards including PAL. Also most computer DVDs can play PAL system DVDs.) Israel's best movie of 2006 is finally available on DVD. Sweet Mud tells the story of a 12-year-old boy growing up on a kibbutz in Southern Israel in the 1970s. His Bar Mitzva year sees him torn between loyalty to his mother and the kibbutz's principles of equality, seding him on a path of discovery that will change his life forever. Israel (2006) Length: 97 min. Director: Dror Shaul Starring: Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi, Gal Zaid Genre: Drama Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English, Hebrew Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Wide screen
13. Israeli coming-of-age story 'Sweet Mud' heads to Netflix
15 okt 2024 · Sweet Mud, Dror Shaul's intense, moving, and sometimes disturbing coming-of-age drama about a boy with a mentally ill mother on a kibbutz, is now available on ...
The story’s primary focus is 12-year-old Dvir and his mother, Miri, who loves him but struggles to function, and who is considered an annoyance by most of the kibbutz members.
14. We Knew in Advance That It Was a Bad Film - So What? - Israeli Culture
2 jan 2006 · In 2006 we are expecting a wonderful year with films that will bring back the feeling of 2004. ... Sweet Mud" won an investment of $500,000?
Israeli cinema had two faces in 2005: A total failure at the box office in Israel, and, on the other hand, success and considerable attention abroad. Sixteen Israeli films, a few of them international coproductions with minimal local investment, came to the screen last year. All of these films together brought only about 300,000 viewers to the theaters, a figure that takes Israeli cinema back to the years before 2004, a year during which about 1.5 million people went to see Hebrew-speaking films.
15. Sweet Mud - UK Jewish Film
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In a kibbutz in the 1970s, Dvir, a 12 year old boy faces the harsh demands of the collective while struggling to make room for, and bring happiness to, his emotionally unstable mother. Without a father around and living away from his mother in the children’s house, Dvir is determined to help his mother find solace and start a new life.
16. 'The Sweet East' is a road trip comedy through a lost America | WBUR News
15 feb 2024 · Sean Price Williams' directorial debut "follows a little girl lost in a post-MAGA America that's a carnival of subcultures all siloed off ...
Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut "follows a little girl lost in a post-MAGA America that’s a carnival of subcultures all siloed off from one another," reviews critic Sean Burns. "It’s a place where everybody’s talking, but only to themselves."
