Lemarit Ain (2006)

Ya'ara, 24 years old, is attractive, independent, confident and intelligent, and she has just begun her PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University. Ya'ara is blind. When she hears of her ... See full summary »

Director:

Daniel Syrkin

Writer:

Noa Greenberg

Stars:

Tali Sharon, Assi Dayan, Sandra Sade

6 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Tali Sharon	...	Yaara
Assi Dayan	...	Rephael
Sandra Sade	...	Hana
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Aloni	...	Tomer the Lifeguard
Avigail Harari	...	Young Yaara
Guy Loel	...	Gidi
Yisrael Poliakov	...	Oria
Hadas Yaron	...	Young Talia Wolach

Storyline

Ya'ara, 24 years old, is attractive, independent, confident and intelligent, and she has just begun her PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University. Ya'ara is blind. When she hears of her cousin Talia's suicide, she rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya'ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya'ara could see everything. Ya'ara joins Talia's family for the traditional 7-day mourning period "The Shiv'a" and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia's life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide. Lies, secrets and gaps are revealed in this powerful story

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Plot Keywords:

suicide | princeton | blindness | flashback | told in flashback | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

Israel

Language:

Hebrew

Release Date:

2 March 2006 (Israel)

Also Known As:

Out of Sight

Filming Locations:

Ben-Gurion International Airport, Israel

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Talia was a fan of the famous Seattle grunge band Nirvana. There's evidence of this in two significant scenes: she's wearing a shirt of the cover of their album "Nevermind" while her and Yaara are walking to the edge of the cliff; a poster of Kurt Cobain's face (singer/guitarist/songwriter of the group) is visible in her bedroom. Like Talia, Cobain also committed suicide - albeit for different reasons.

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Connections

Remade as Lies in Plain Sight (2010)

User Reviews

Blind people can see certain things better then anybody else

The story is very trustworthy and powerful. The technical side of the movie is quite fine.. even the directing of it. The main problem is with the castings, that turned that movie into almost another local and regular cliché with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression. Beside the small role of the father, Rafael (played impressively by Asi Dayan), all other actors were unfortunately not in their best. The role of the elder Blind girl, played by Taly Sharon, was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role. therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile. There were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie. But after all it's a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future.