Another Israeli film is Ga’agua (2017), directed by Shabi Gabizon. Despite the fact that all his films were a great success in the country and received many awards, the director shoots them extremely rarely and very few. This film came out after a 10-year hiatus from the previous film. I haven’t seen any of his other films yet, but
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Another Israeli film is Ga’agua (2017), directed by Shabi Gabizon. Despite the fact that all his films were a great success in the country and received many awards, the director shoots them extremely rarely and very few. This film came out after a 10-year hiatus from the previous film. I haven’t seen any of his other films yet, but I’ve seen this one and liked it. The main character of Ariel (Shai Avivi, he played this role well) is an industrialist who owns a factory, but an old bachelor is unexpectedly invited to a meeting by his former lover Ronit (Assie Levy), with whom he broke up 20 years ago. The reason turns out to be very tragic - she decided to reveal to him a secret that she kept all her life - at one time after their separation she discovered that she was pregnant, she kept the child without telling him, because he categorically did not want to have children, then got married, the guy she called Adam grew up, but a month ago died in a car accident, and Ronit decided that he should have known about it. From this moment, Ariel’s life is literally turned upside down, he goes from Tel Aviv to Acre, where Ronit’s family lived, and in many ways unexpectedly for himself begins to unravel the tangle of the past and make various actions, in a few days as if trying to do something for his unfamiliar son. The information he learns about his son from the different people he meets is both positive and negative. Possessing some undoubted talents, he did very unseemly deeds. A lot of things turn over in Ariel’s soul during this time, but, unfortunately, nothing can be changed and corrected. And then, teaming up with the girl's father, whom he met in the cemetery, they make a strange ceremony for them and for us, which, however, is used somewhere in Asia, trying to give their children a chance to find something at least after death.
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