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The Tribe

Plemya (The Tribe)

2014

Miroslav Slaboshpitsky

Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich ...

6.6

1,990

Drama Somewhere in Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. Alone in this new and unfamiliar place, he must find his way through the school's hierarchy. Sergey quickly encounters the tribe, a student gang dealing in crime and prostitution. The film is in sign language. There are no translation, no subtitles, no voice-over.

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"The use of sign language, deafness and silence itself adds several heady new ingredients to the base material, alchemically creating something rich, strange and very original"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A formal tour de force, a triumphant overcoming of self-imposed cinematic challenges."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A formally audacious coup de cinema that marks a stunning writing-directing debut for Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I can't stop thinking about it. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"A strange and oddly immersive film that makes it audience really work but in the end delivers something rare and original."	POS

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