What is the best Tomer Sisley film released in theaters according to AlloCiné viewers? This is the question we ask ourselves after the actor's return to theaters with “Largo Winch 3”.
Tomer Sisley, 49, has made a name for himself in film and television, notably becoming the star of the Balthazar series and the Largo Winch saga. With the third installment of the franchise coming out in theaters, we ask ourselves the following question: what is Tomer Sisley's best film according to AlloCiné viewers?
To find it, you have to jump 9 years into the past. With a score of 3.2 out of 5 (average of 204 ratings), The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin is the best feature film with Tomer Sisley. Directed by Amos Gitaï, the film takes us to November 4, 1995.
Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister, man of the Oslo Accords and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is assassinated in Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv after a long speech against violence and for peace.
His assassin: a far-right religious Jewish student. Twenty years later, filmmaker Amos Gitai returns to this traumatic event with new insight. Placing the assassination in its political and societal context, The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin mixes fictional reconstructions and archive footage to offer a true political thriller.
Tomer Sisley plays the politician's driver and his performance made an impression. “It's the first time I felt like I was practicing my profession as an actor”he confided to First in 2015.
What do the spectators think?
Stéphane C underlines a “an exciting reconstruction, which seems to explore several hypotheses (isolated extremist, plot of the rabbis…) without however giving an answer; it is also a tribute to the admirable man that Rabin was.”
An important film
For his part, Rico92 mentions “A very good historical film that helps us not to forget an event that certainly considerably changed international politics and whose repercussions are still considerable today.”
According to Laurent C, “The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin is an important film. Amos Gitaï is a director who is very uneven in his works. However, this time he has produced a poignant, powerful feature film, which recreates, certainly not without bias, the memory of an important man in the world.”
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Norman06 is also convinced: “This is a fascinating X-ray of an assassination, using original archive footage, interviews and reconstruction scenes with fictional characters. The brilliant editing serves a quality reflection on the interference between political and religious powers. A must-see in this period of resurgence of extremism!”
They liked it less
Yves G did not really appreciate Amos Gitaï's proposal: “The film is too long, stretching out for an interminable 2h30. A duration that is all the more painful because the editing is terribly lacking in nerve, making a succession of long dialogued face-offs that are more at home in the theater than in the cinema. Big disappointment.”
Brunetol is also very disappointed: “It's unwatchable, like all the pompous, bloated and pitiful films of this director, whose first and only talent is the energy he deploys to pass himself off as the essential reference of Israeli cinema, when he is nothing more than a megalomaniac impostor.”
For his part, Vidal B is not convinced but qualifies his opinion a little: “The result does not live up to our expectations. This film is a mixture of exciting documentary images, astonishingly virtuosic reconstructions, astonishing interviews, and… long, sometimes laborious explanatory tunnels.”
If you want to make up your own mind, The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin is available on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD.