Synopsis
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
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Cast
- Ronit ElkabetzViviane Amsalem
- Simon AbkarianElisha
- Menashe NoyCarmel
- Gabi AmraniHaim
- Dalia BegerDonna Aboukassis
- Sasson GabaiSimeon Amsalem
Recommendations
- 100
Time Out
The acting, especially from Menash Noy as an ineffectual attorney, is phenomenal, resulting in a feminist knockout told in inverse. - 91
The A.V. Club
All the performers are superb, though as the title suggests, this is Viviane’s show, and Ronit makes for an exceptional martyr (she gets a Passion Of Joan Of Arc-worthy close-up or two) who never loses her very human shadings. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s an altogether strange but astonishing work of craftsmanship. - 90
Variety
The beautifully modulated script, ripe with moments of liberating humor, builds to a crescendo of indignation, allowing Elkabetz several cathartic outbursts, but they’re no more riveting than the actress’ silences. - 90
Village Voice
Ronit's remarkable sensitivity makes Gett a tough but essential melodrama. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The brilliance of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is that, without a shift in tone, the film begins to seem like a tragedy populated by clowns, its males clinging to ancient laws to compensate for feebleness of character. - 90
Los Angeles Times
The tragedy here is not a single story but that a process so inequitable and so inane continues in a place that is considered to be enlightened. Gett, in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world. - 88
Slant Magazine
The courtroom's cramped, near-featureless air of bureaucratic stagnation becomes oppressive even for the audience, making it easy to identify with Viviane's growing hunger for freedom.
