MOVIE - "13 Tzameti"

First-time director Gela Babulani has created the cinematic equivalent of the shot not heard round the world in "13 Tzameti" – a chillingly taut drama where the empty click of a gun is just as potent as the shot itself. Once Babulani gets beyond his initially teasing camerawork and transforms his protagonist, Sebastien, from a financially-strapped immigrant in rural France to an accidental contestant in the illegal world of a high-stakes Russian-roulette tournament, we have an effective bit of suspenseful noir on our hands.

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