Shoshana

2024 2h 1m EN

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6.2

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73%

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6.3

IMDB

★6.2TMDB · 69🍅73%Rotten Tomatoes★6.3IMDB · 791

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In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Douglas Booth
Thomas Wilkin
Harry Melling
Geoffrey Morton
Irina Starshenbaum
Shoshana Borochov
Gina Bramhill
Alice Morton
Aury Alby
Avraham Stern
Liudmyla Vasylieva
Luba Borochov
Ian Hart
Robert Chambers
Oliver Chris
Ralph Cairns

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writers: Laurence Coriat, Paul Viragh, Michael Winterbottom
Languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian
Countries: United Kingdom, Italy

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, Italy.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Winterbottom, shot by Giles Nuttgens. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by David Holmes. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Marc Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Douglas Booth and Harry Melling and Irina Starshenbaum carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt20251588 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Michael Winterbottom directs. Giles Nuttgens behind the camera. David Holmes scores. Marc Richardson cuts. Produced in United Kingdom, Italy. Dialogue in English, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian.

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1Released 2 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian.
3International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, Italy.
4Directed by Michael Winterbottom, shot by Giles Nuttgens. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by David Holmes. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Marc Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Douglas Booth and Harry Melling and Irina Starshenbaum carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt20251588 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 69 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens
Original score: David Holmes
Editing: Marc Richardson
Production design: Sergio Tribastone
Runtime: 121 min · 2h 1m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $104,801
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Shoshana (2024)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 791 votes

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CinemaSerf2024-03-06
★ 6/10
This is a curiously undercooked iteration of a story that well exemplifies that expression about one man's terrorist being another's freedom fighter. It's the underwhelming Douglas Booth who is Wilkin, a police detective based in British-administered Palestine and a man who has a semblance of decency to him. His boss "Chambers" (Ian Hart) is a bit more of a player, though - and he drafts in the much more "hands-on" Morton (the unremarkable Harry Melling) to get results more quickly - not least the apprehension of Stern (Aury Alby) who is determined to establish a Jewish homeland and doesn't much care which tactics he uses to accomplish that. The personal story is largely historical fact, so there's no real jeopardy here, but it's an interesting postulation on just how the British tried to administer a region and a population that had no interest in being administered, and that was being logistically manipulated with the shortest of term vision for anyone's future. Palestinian and Jew could agree on just one thing - get the UK out, but thereafter there was little consensus as the bombs and the bullets continued to fly. To be honest, I found the contribution of the eponymous woman (Irina Starshenbaum) to be almost incidental to what is essentially a rather dryly brutal story of a territory that always has been and will be fought over. It looks fine, but somehow it's all just a little too bitty - episodic, even, and it needed a bigger hitter to deliver the narrative more engagingly and convincingly. Pity.

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