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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 12219
Released: May 16, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Oscar® winner Tom Hanks stars in this romantic tale set during the turbulent period of World War II.
David (Hanks) is an American pilot who joins the RAF before his nation enters the war. After his plane is shot down in North Africa, he recovers from a leg injury in Jerusalem, and meets a serene Jewish girl of Spanish descent (Cristina Marsillach). The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced that their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work because of her family's disapproval and the fact that he is a gentile son of a protestant minister. Although they keep running into each other in the small community, they find themselves parting as frequently as they find each other.
Every Time We Say Goodbye is the remarkable story of a forbidden love, religious /cultural differences, and the sacrifices that are made in the face of human prejudice.
Every Time We Say Goodbye Reviews:
Big hitter star, neat movie 
2009-04-04 - This took a while to develop but was a great movie with a very young Tom Hanks doing a great job. Loved the female lead too.
A Must See Movie 
2009-01-17 - Tom Hanks is The Actor of my generation. I remember seeing this movie on HBO when I was in high school and enjoying it. This movie is so under-rated and I hope that this DVD release will allow the movie to reach a bigger audience. The subtleness of the movie won't appeal to the ADHD action film lovers, but is a great story about the turbluent times of a World War where God picked up the chess pieces and strew them around the world. The acting is top notch (would we expect anything less from Tom?) and the story is unique (yes it is boy-meets-girl-loses girl-meets-girl again and the family forbids their love but there is more to it than that). The movie's visuals are amazing too.
Great love story
2008-10-26 - One of Tom Hank's early movies, Tom and Cristina Marsillach are great together. She a young Jewish women, He an American fighting for the British in World War 2 Middle East. Tha confilcts that arise because of religon and the war lead to a warn and troubled love. A real heart warming story.
Movie Buff
2008-08-04 - Found this movie quite entertaining. Tom Hanks is very good as usual. Would recommend it to others. Mike Z.
A Small Forgotten Beauty
2008-05-10 - "Every Time We Say Goodbye"
A Small Forgotten Beauty
Amos Lassen
"Every Time We Say Goodbye" is one of those movies that opened with no fanfare and then quietly disappeared. This is surprising as Tom Hanks, a box office champion, plays the lead. We can only hope that now that it is available on DVD that it will get its just due. (The film also stars my favorite actress and friend, Gila Almagor, a noted Israeli actress).
Hanks is a World War II American pilot who is stationed in Jerusalem and who falls in love with a beautiful Sephardic girl, Sarah Perrera (Cristina Marsillach). Her family is against the two seeing each other and the film focuses on their forbidden love affair and we see the despair of human prejudices and the optimism of human determination, Sara is caught between two dilemmas--her family traditions and her love for someone "different". We also get to see the unique lifestyle of Sephardic Jews and hear the beauty of the Ladino language (a now dead language once spoken by the Sephardim).
The story is uncontrived and straight forward. Both Hanks and Marsillach give outstanding performances and the chemistry between the two is amazing. The two are worlds apart but love brings them together. The flow of emotion between them is caught up in the tensions of Sara's family.
As I mentioned before, Ladino is spoken by Sara's family. It was the language spoken by the Jews of Spain around the time that Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain (c.1492).This gives the film a kind of time capsule quality as the language has not changed over the years and it is very rare that we hear the language actually spoken.
Another interesting aspect of the film is that it underscores the inertia of human relations. The world was in the midst of war and the fate of an entire people was at stake yet we still hold onto the differences between people.
The most unforgettable scene in the film is when Sara's father calmly but strictly tells his daughter that is she marries the pilot that she will be dead to him. He says this as if he were telling her a bedtime story and as cold as it is, it shows us an aspect of Jewish life that we do not often get to see..
"Every Time We Say Goodbye" is one of those movies that is real and raw and is just beautiful to watch. The photography of Jerusalem stuns the eyes and the young lovers capture our hearts.
