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  Review by Joshua Dysart ★★½ 24

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Let me ask those of you who’ve seen this a question. Are you aware that Abkhaz separatist committed ethnic cleansing, killing between 4,000 and 15,000 Georgians? And that during the whole conflict 10,000 to 30,000 Georgian civilians were killed?

  Now. Knowing that, how does this morally simplistic fable about two enemies finding common ground sit with you? It suddenly all seems a little softly peddled, doesn’t it? A little reductionist? Maybe it seems like the real issues at hand, which this movie lacks the courage to confront, have a lot more moral complexity than what shows up on screen?

  How is it that the two characters on opposite sides of the conflict stuck in a small house together for days…

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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★★ 3

  “What is wrong with you, young men? All the time, I will kill, I will kill... Who gave you the right for that?"

  I wasn’t familiar with Estonian cinema before Mandariinid (Tangerines), but I will definitely be keeping my eyes open for Zaza Urushadze’s upcoming projects because this was a fulfilling experience. I know the Academy doesn’t always get it right, but at least it gives me a chance to check out films that I wouldn’t have heard of otherwise. Urushadze’s greatest strength as a director here comes from focusing on the story, which he also wrote. It is a simple anti-war film with a powerful narrative and strong performances that benefit from an interesting premise. Urushadze doesn’t try to…

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  Review by Prateek Sharma ★★★★

  Does it make any difference??

  There's uncanny normality between quo vadis aida, beau travail, barber tales and now this film I've seen...There's beautiful subtext covered in privates lives within the war narrative (modern times) in unusual way in these films.

  The concept and idea of Tangerines is beautiful, even though tangerines are a type of fruit, in this film it represents the honor for land,history and their own identity in unusual way. Writer director Zaza Urushadze elegantly displayed the destruction of war nicely. This film brilliantly showed the consequences of Georgian civil war. The old guy Ivo and his friend margus are the only people living in Abkhazia, situated in newly independent Georgia where there's tension between Russians and georgian…

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  Review by Hershey ★★★★★ 1

  Screw it, I'm raising this to 5 stars.

  I don't give 5 stars out lightly, this is the 17th for me.

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  Review by yağmur🌞 ★★★★ 1

  sonunda bi miktar içim burkulmuş olabilir...
  
  "Ahmed, fark eder mi?"

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  Review by MOHVIC ★★★★½

  ماذا لو اصبح منزلك ارض محايده لـ حرب؟

  
  اندلعت الحرب في منطقة أبخازيا بجورجيا ، ويبدو أن معظم الإستونيين في المنطقة قد أخلوا المنطقة بالفعل. أحد المتطرفين القلائل المتبقين هو إيفو ، الذي يبقى في الخلف لرؤية محاصيل اليوسفي رفقة ماركوس ...

  بطبيعة الحال ، على الرغم من رغبته في البقاء على الحياد ، فإن الحرب تأتي إليه في منزله اشتباكات بين الجورجيين والشيشان خلّفت جميع القتلى باستثناء شخصين ، أحدهم من جورجيا والآخر شيشاني ...

  
  هذا هو نوع الفيلم الذي يتسلل إليك طوال وقت المشاهده ...

  ليس مثاليًا ، ولكن بمرور الوقت يكاد يكون من المستحيل عدم الانغماس في أجوائه...

  فهو عباره شريحة مناهضه ومذهلة إلى حد ما من سينما الحرب. ..

  اليوسفي قدم لنا بطريقه فريده جدا من نوعها ، التصنيف غالبا ما راح نقول انه مستهلك وكثير شفنا افلام تتكلم عن مساوء الحرب والمها لكن في اليوسفي راح نشاهده مع تصنيف جميل الا وهو المكان الواحد الي اعطى الفلم نكهه اخرى ... 

  
  فلم عظيم

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★½ 2

  Part of Lise and Jonnie’s March Around the World 2017

  Tangerines – Film 13 – Estonia

  
  What does it matter?

  What a lovely human film about the inhumanity of war. Tangerines could have easily strayed into maudlin melodrama, but no, it keeps its balance throughout.

  Even at a sprite 87 minutes, Tangerines never feels hurried. Writer / Director Zaza Urushadze finds the time to linger on the beautiful scenery that is in such contrast to the violent horror that is taking place on this grand and peaceful stage.

  Speaking of stage, the film has all the earmarks of a play … much of our time is spent around a dinner table with our three characters … yet it never feels…

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  Review by mehmet ★★★★½

  bu film her zaman kalbimin bir kosesinde yer alicak

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  Review by Rethaam ★★★★½

  -لماذا لم تعد إلى موطنك؟ هل تحب المكان هنا؟
  -احبه... واكرهه

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  Review by Julian (The Film Seeker) ★★★

  The complexity of war is a topic that few films have been able to delve into with the particular level of nuance needed to please every side. To take that complexity and further distill it into a mere 87-minute runtime may strike some as especially flaky, and sure enough, Tangerines has been accused of reducing the implications of an intricate conflict into a digestible morality tale. Presented as a stripped-down chamber piece of sorts, in which a wounded soldier from each side of the War in Abkhazia is left at the mercy of two neutral Estonians, the film could very easily have made its morality claims free of controversy had this simple thesis of "war bad" been applied to some…

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  Review by Elías José Quintana Duarte ★★★ 3

  Tensiones; conflictos armados; ¿ Por qué aparecen? Por proteger nuestro hogar pero.... ¿Cuál es el verdadero significa del hogar ? ¿nuestra tierra? ¿ realmente peleamos por eso ? ¿ No sería más bonito cultivar mandarinas juntos? Por qué ese fruto amargo que germina en la tierra también da un sabor dulce y genera sensaciones de paz. Historia 6. Dirección 6. Desarrollo de personajes 7.

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ✝️ ★★★★

  After the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict, intensified by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the War in Abkhazia took place between 1992 and 1993 in which Abkhaz separatist forces were seeking the independence of Abkhazia from Georgia, Russian armed forces and North Caucasian hired soldiers. The film takes place in a rural village of ethnic Estonians in Abkhazia, still Georgian territory, and tells the story of Ivo and Margus, two neighbor friends who refused to flee to Estonia during the conflict for personal motives, one of them including the prosperity of a prolific tangerine crop. A bloody battle occurs in front of Ivo's house where he encounters dead and injured people. He decides to cure and shelter two survivors from…