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The Tribe (2014)

Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Overview

Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf-and-dumb. In navigating through the school’s hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group.

Length 130 minutes

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Viewing History (seen 1 time)


Date Viewed	Device	Format	Source	Rating
08/28/2015	Movie Screen	Digital	Theater	8 stars
				(Average) 8 stars

Viewing Notes

Finally caught up with this film, in a theater no less! IT was playing at the Dairy Center in Boulder so Tonia and I went right after work. I skipped this film at Fantastic Fest, opted not to do the long drive to Alamo Denver when it played there, and missed it when it played at Sie Film Center, so this felt like it was finally meant to be.

It definitely has its own style. The combination of single, kinetic camera shots, long takes and virtual silence is unique and interesting in a good, non-pretentious way. While I’m sure I missed out on a lot of the context and details of what was happening due to my lack of understanding of sign language, it was easy enough to get the gist of things.

I found it particularly interesting that the audience was 2/3 deaf and that many of them sitting in front of us were signing to each other constantly throughout the movie. While it was a little distracting it was also obvious that it was pretty amazing for them to see a movie entirely in sign language. I can’t begin to understand what that experience was like. And while I couldn’t understand the conversations on screen in sign language they were also missing out on all the environmental sounds.

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