Credited cast: | |||
Alon Pdut | ... | David / Husband | |
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Shiree Nadav-Naor | ... | Rina / Wife |
Mili Eshet | ... | Yifat / Daughter | |
Noam Imber | ... | Omri / Son | |
Yoav Rotman | ... | Evyatar / Rina's student | |
Mohamed Naama | ... | Ayman / Arab man | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Ala Dakka | ... | Imad / Ayman's boyfriend | |
Jonathan Dekel | ... | Boss | |
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Oneg Efron | ... | Elisha / Yifat's friend |
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Revital Iyov | ... | Fairuz / Singer |
Suzanna Papian | ... | Dikla / Investigator | |
Naama Preis | ... | Salesgirl in bookstore | |
Shani Rotenberg |
Returning to civilian life after twenty-seven years in the army isn't as easy as David had hoped. It's hard to re-establish daily contact with his family, with the dimension of his home and, above all, with the new Israel, an ultra-competitive society obsessed with success. Thus, the opportunity to join a company which produces nutritional supplements seems like a possible escape to be seized without hesitation. But David doesn't know how much his country has changed. Written by Torino Film Festival
Eran Kolerin's previous film, The Exchange, had to do (if I understood it at all, and maybe I didn't) with intentionally attacking the connection between people and their context. In this new one, a man is dislodged from his context-- he retires from his job in the standing army-- and he finds himself a bit of a stranger among his family. His daughter, his wife, and his son all have secrets from him although each of them also reflects an aspect of his own tendencies. The scenes of the film are paced in surprising ways. Some moments last longer than a viewer would normally expect, others are cut off abruptly, and sometimes the film skips moments that we might expect to see. A soundtrack that repeatedly returns to Israeli consensus music, the great Israeli songbook, sometimes sounds ironic against the edgy conflict-ridden situations but also recalls the film's epigraph, in which poet David Avidan remarks that we have nowhere else to go-- meaning not just as a nation among nations, but also as individuals among the vicissitudes of life. The movie leaves some matters unresolved, and it certainly doesn't follow anything like the clean arc of Kolerin's most popular movie, The Band's Visit, but it implies, in a more hopeful way than The Exchange did, that whatever may happen to you or around you, you can decide to define yourself apart from it.