Reviews:

THE BOSTON GLOBE
"A deliciously head-spinning hour-long dissertation on the ways Israelis perceive time's flux, set to a percolating jazz score."     

 VILLAGE VOICE
"An engaging doc about the strange tempo of a culture that's part First World and part Third World…Using odd juxtapositions of interviews and archival footage, directors Ayelet Menahemi and EIlona Ariel manage to capture something of Israel's frenetic and fragmentary reality, where messianic prophets share spaces at cafés with high-tech executives, wars mark the beginning and end of epochs, and time is punctuated by constant news broadcasts."  

VARIETY
"From zippy credits and slick editing to its cool jazz score, pic ticks along with near perfection."   

KAY ARMATAGE, TORONTO INT. FF
"This stunning film uses an inventive post modern structure, and extraordinarily tight editing, to open out a narrowly national question into the universal realm of philosophy. And along with everything else, it's a laugh a minute." 

WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK
"This film provides an honest and penetrating look at the Jewish state at the beginning of the 21st century. It may be the best documentary of its kind that I have ever seen."                                                    

THE PALM BEACH POST
"Surprisingly thoughtful…a documentary about temporal relativity that would bring a wry smile to Albert Einstein."  

JURY'S VERDICT - Best Documentary Award Jerusalem Film Festival   
"A superbly crafted cinematic essay, realized with great humor and intelligence…a delightful celebration of insight, humanity, and universal relevance." 

JURY'S VERDICT - Best Documentary Film, JAPAN PRIZE
"It is rare to see a program that can delight, provoke, cause to question, and entertain in such an original way. The fact that it deals with one of the most abstract and intractable notions makes it all the more worthy of this prize. This is a program that truly is ahead of its time - as well as being all about time . "

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