13 Tzameti13 Tzameti

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  • Rating:
     NR
  • Language:
      Fra
  • Studio:
      Palm Pictures
  • UPC:
      660200314729
  • Year of Release:
      2005
  • Item Number:
      PLM003147
  • Release Date:
      02/13/2007
  • Genre:
     

    Foreign Films –

    Psychological Thriller –

    Thriller

  • Format:
     

    DVD

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

    An aimless 20-year-old with a penchant for following the rules receives a mysterious set of instructions that lead him down a path from which he may never return in director Gela Babluani's tense tale of death and chance. Sebastien has come into possession of a train ticket and a mysterious set of instructions. Though he is unsure of exactly what fate awaits him when he arrives at his destination, one thing is certain: these items were most certainly not meant for him. Bored by his uneventful existence and hungering for something new, Sebastien boards the outbound train and takes his first bold steps into an unknown future. But the world can be a cruel and unforgiving place filled with unfeeling men to whom human life means little more than a lost wager, and if Sebastien is to make it through his harrowing journey alive he must keep his wits about him and pray that luck is on his side. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Subtitle: Eng
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Features:
    • Interview with director Gela Babluani and Actors Georges Babluani and Aurelien Recoin
    • The DVD design contest - top 13 finalists
    • Sunday's Game - a short film about some nice old ladies
    • Deleted scenes
    • Testimony of a survivor
    • 5.1 surround sound
    • US theatrical trailer
    • Palm previews
    • Weblinks
AWARDS
  • Sundance Film Festival
  •     Won World Cinema Jury Prize - Dramatic - 2006
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEW:
  • 13 Tzameti has a chilling, electrifying central showpiece, but it lacks the plot mechanics to deliver an equivalent sense of dramatic tension. There's plenty of the regular kind of tension -- sometimes more than a viewer can handle -- but it's restricted to certain contained moments of wincing intensity. And because it's driven more by the situation than the characters, it's visceral and surface-level, rather than emotionally resonant. Writer-director Gela Babluani has made an impeccable homage to the French New Wave with his black-and-white thriller about a 13-person game of Russian roulette, gambled on by the rich, in which participants become involved somewhat unwittingly. The Georgian filmmaker uses his outsider perspective to bring a unique touch to the French-language film, making for a memorable experience that recalls classic New Wave films. 13 Tzameti is so rich with style and atmosphere, however, that the story ends up not quite living up to its potential. The viewer's surrogate (played by the director's younger brother) is a guy we don't know much about -- he's an opportunistic contractor who's about to be stiffed for services rendered, so he steals his employer's invitation to a game he knows nothing about. He doesn't have a goal other than to be compensated, and to get out alive. Babluani masterfully controls each moment of truth -- cutting away to the participants' faces, destroyed by anxiety, and to a bulb that illuminates when it's time to pull the trigger -- but by following one character at the expense of all others, he inevitably removes some uncertainty about each outcome. Fans probably won't care too deeply about any narrative shortcomings, since the French New Wave was not particularly a plot-driven movement, anyway. 13 Tzameti has the stylistic trademarks and the bleak world view to make it a shining modern example of that form. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

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