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welcome to golda meir junior high school home of the bewitching and the bewitched morePlot:
The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of sub-plots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara... more | add synopsisAwards:
7 wins & 5 nominations moreUser Comments:
Traditional folk talk of magic and morality moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lucy Dubinchik | ... | Clara Chanov | |
| Halil Elohev | ... | Eddie Tikel | |
| Johnny Peterson | ... | Rosy | |
| Maya Maron | ... | Libby | |
| Maya De-Fries | ... | Eleanor Galash | |
| Tal Feigenboim | ... | Galit Biron | |
| Yigal Naor | ... | Headmaster Tissona | |
| Joe El Dror | ... | Teacher Mounitz | |
| Orly Silbersatz Banai | ... | TV Reporter | |
| Tal Ben-Bina | ... | Tikel's Mom | |
| Menashe Noy | ... | Tikel's Dad | |
| Jenya Dodina | ... | Clara's Mom | |
| Ronald Heilovsky | ... | Clara's Dad | |
| Israel Damidov | ... | Elvis Chanov | |
| Ronny Bachar | ... | Vered Rosental |
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On the surface, Saint Clara presents itself as a clever and amusing dystopian look at modern society. The central characters inhabit a town of featureless block buildings and deserted streets. Golda Meir High seems to be completely empty except for the principal, one teacher, and one class. And the TV in all the houses are tuned to the same show, in which a wild haired woman makes cryptic prophecies of doom and destruction.
Underneath all of this, however, is a traditional folk tale of an alienated young boy who falls in love and makes his peace with society. The boy, the town, and you the viewer learn just how unimportant are things like fame, fortune, and power. And all along the way you are entertained with tales of magic and humorous anecdotes. Long ago, this is the type of tale with which a traveling minstrel would have held your fascination. Remove the post-apocalyptic stylizations and this becomes very reminiscent of the early stories of Isaac B. Singer, which I assume are themselves done in the style of traditional Yiddish folk tales.
Don't be put off by the idea of having to sit through a moral lesson; the movie is never didactic or preachy. When you finally see the lesson at the end, it just makes the characters seem that much real and the stories that much more entertaining. This is a short and not particularly ambitious movie, but it succeeds completely in those things which it does set out to accomplish.