Amos Gitai's Kippur feels like the end result of a collaboration between Michelangelo Antonioni and Abbas Kiarostami if they decided to make a war film. It is a slow, calm look at two young soldiers caught up in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The two soldiers try to report to their units when Syria invades on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calender, but get lost and end up being recruited as part of a helicopter medical rescue squad. The film is made up almost entirely of long, slow tracking shots that view the carnage of war in a deliberate, subjective manner. I read in one review that Gitai was using these shots to demonstrate how different the experiences are between civilian life and combat duty even though they can be separated by only a few minutes or feet. To that extent, I suppose that he was successful. This is a difficult film to watch if you expect a more traditional war film. In fact, I wouldn't even call it a war film. Instead, it is a film about war and the soldiers caught up in the chaos.
6/10
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