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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305929659
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 6305929653
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 38491
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
As unflinching and bleak as it is beautiful, Tim Roth's directorial debut, The War Zone, is remarkably accomplished filmmaking. Adapted by Alexander Stuart from his own novel, the film centers on a family that has just moved from London to the wind-swept English seaside during winter. The relative isolation soon reveals an ongoing incestuous relationship between the working-class father (Ray Winstone) and his 17-year-old-daughter, Jessie. The middle-class mother (Tilda Swinton) has just given birth to their third child and desperately avoids knowing the truth, leaving Tom, the younger brother, with the horrific responsibility of exposing the family secret. Fearless in its hard-fought depiction of incest, The War Zone pulls no punches; this vivid portrayal of abuse within a family and the scathed consciousness that results is not for the faint of heart. True to his theater background, Roth doesn't explain how or where such brutal choices were first taken, choosing rather to let the actors bear the ambiguities and anguish of a terrible knowledge in the their body language. --Fionn Meade
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 3.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Though Tim Roth's direction sometimes falters by staying back when it should draw the viewer in, The War Zone is a searing family portrait that pulls no punches and makes movies like Festen or Rachel Getting Married seem very tame by comparison.
Rating: - Disturbingly riveting
This is a gripping realistic film about incest and the ramifications it has, especially on the children. We begin by seeing through the eyes of a brother who discovers his sister is being abused by their father. The confusion and betrayal he feels is played brilliantly by the young actor, Freddie Cunliffe, who I believe was a relative newcomer with this film.
Lara Belmont plays his sister trying desperately to keep her fragile world together while living through the hell of abuse. ... Read More
Rating: - A Family at War...
This is an incredibly moving film about a family of four (soon to be five) who moves to the country from London in hopes of having a better life. There's Tom, the younger teenage brother, played by Freddie Cunliffe who is depressed and angry that he was forced to leave his friends behind. Because of the extra time on his hands he's able to see things within his family he never noticed before.
There's Jessie, played by Lara Belmont, who plays the eldest daughter. She's sad, withdrawn ... Read More
Rating: - The Dead Zone
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"The War Zone" directed by Tim Roth fully confirms its reputation as extremely dark, pessimistic tragic, and highly admirable given the deeply disturbing nature of its subject. Performances are fantastic - natural and honest. As a director, the first-timer Tim Roth is very impressive - he created the atmosphere that makes a viewer suffocated, uncomfortable, and hurt which is appropriate for this type of film. The most talked about scene ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic movie if you can get past "the scene."
There were two things that made this movie: the directing and the father character.
There's a lot that we don't know about this family. The movie is a tale about emotion and coming to grips with it. There are deeper problems than the incest that goes on between the daughter and father. That is only a symptom. Unfortunately, as the movie underscores, the incest ruins everyone elses lives as well.
Visually it is a beautiful film, filled with drab water-color images. The ... Read More
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