emilywes56 While I was watching the film I did not talk. When it was over I could not move, I felt completely frozen solid. The Tribe is not a movie that someone can forget the next day and it certainly requires attention. It is one of the films that leave you speechless because of their raw honesty, terrifying atmosphere and unique cinematography. Indeed, words are superfluous in this case. The Tribe delivers an original point of view and a powerful impact on the soul of the viewer. The director has made an unmatched achievement, in which music is not needed, voice recording is not needed. As paradoxical as it sounds the transaction that haunt us is the single sound of the door that slaps. Additionally, this movie has some very difficult to watch scenes. The harshness in which the story and the heroes evolve is indisputable, as there are some infrequent scenes of violence or pain. Powerful, straightforward and a testimony for a grouping of people that we come to understand rarely or never through the movies it describe better than anything else their story-only with them, the light and space-. Last but not least I believe, in contrast with some other reviewers, that this film stands up for its protagonists and that the director made a successful experiment, which theoretically is a new era in cinema today, trying to portray something different, with sensitivity and in contradiction with profitable cinematography and popular success stories. This film is about life itself and the need for survival and love. A little detail in the analysis of the frames is that camera never reach its actors with close-up. All frames include whole-body shots or waist. Hard light, hidden faces, angle from behind their back, we never watch their faces, their face characteristics and details from close enough to "observe them". Even in love scenes we watch their face expressions but mostly their body. The dynamic of the body is their way of communication and it has a symbolic role in the events. With this act, the distance of deaf-mute people and the part of the people that can hear or/and talk is translated into a cinematic angle which transfers feelings of isolation and loss better than any other way, making us feel and listen again for a first time.

Michael Zary The Tribe is one of the most unsettling films of the year. It is set at a boarding school for the deaf in Kiev, where anarchy prevails. There are no words, subtitles, or even a score. The hearing viewer is left to interpret the violent chaos without auditory clues, presenting a unique challenge in understanding the narrative and the motivations of the characters. We are left to confusedly construe scenarios by their actions, and as such, are provided some insight into the helpless isolation of the deaf.As a film, The Tribe may be interpreted in various ways: as a political allegory for the Ukraine, as a discourse on communication through violence, as an allegory to the impotence experienced by minority groups, or as an exploration of enactivism in film. Regardless, there are scenes that are shockingly disturbing, and the direction is unflinching. My only conclusion is that I'm sorry deaf people, but I don't trust you anymore.

trinacria-82404 'Plemya/The Tribe' conveys with raw brutality the silent world of the deaf and dumb, as when the older pimp is crushed to death by a reversing lorry, on one of the many nights when two girls from 'the tribe' solicit prostitution from truck drivers. Inspiring and sad by turns, the attitude of the characters in the movie, with the exception of the Down's syndrome boy, is beyond disability. They have worked through their impediments and learned to interact with the world inside and outside their institution, to achieve their intentions, whether good or bad, despite their physical limitations, even oblivious to them. Life inside the institution is bleak, with the only avenue for education and self-improvement being a carpentry class run by the institution's bus-driver. The perfect wooden hammer shaped by the model student, the misfit boy, eventually delivers the fatal blow to the teacher-carpenter, involved in a scam to send the blonde prostitute on a tourist visa to Italy. The movie illustrates how gang loyalties compensate for the lack of guidance in a young person's life. Being free from the shackles of accountability is a primary instigator for criminal activities, for monetary and in-kind rewards but also an antidote for boredom, frustration and idleness. At the end of this stunning movie, sadness is compounded by the realization that we do not have a single name to cross-check against the actors' names on the credit list. Is this a celebration of triumph over adversity? Hardly, but a compelling movie, nevertheless, on a taboo topic. cine girl

Jake Thompson "The Tribe" is a huge step backwards in the history of film: a silent movie without subtitles or music. Somehow or other this film has been hailed as some sort of masterpiece. It isn't. More like the Emperor's New Clothes.Here are my top ten reasons for avoiding it at all costs:1. Pointless 2. Depressing 3. Overlong 4. Confusing 5. Slow 6. Badly acted 7. Full of unlikable characters 8. Insulting to deaf people 9. Insulting to non-deaf people 10. Ridiculously violent.There is absolutely reason I can think of to see this film. You will not gain anything. You will not learn anything. You will only be depressed, and like seeing a car accident, you will wish you hadn't looked in the first place. "The Tribe" or "Plemya" is simply more evidence that Cannes juries go for anything that seems documentary-like and seems to capture some sort of reality -- despite a lack of sympathetic characters or a compelling story. And if there are no actual actors involved, no dialogue and no soundtrack, all the better. Congratulations, here's your prize.