Requiem for one family, or hope for its resurrection? Will the illness and death of the grandfather serve to bring together family members who are so far apart, although living under the same roof?
This film struck a blow to my illusion that family values and the institution of family are stronger in Israel than in Europe. After all, Jews are one of the most traditional peoples, alas.
Yuval Shaferman draws a family palette with sharp strokes, where everyone is on his own, everyone is in the cocoon of his problems and no one hears anyone. Old resentments are mixed with pleasant memories. A long quarrel with his grandfather, the resentment of parents and older grandchildren. Unwanted children, creative unrealization, recklessness and aimlessness of the existence of the eldest son, sexual experiments of the eldest daughter. Amid all this heap of insincerity and insincerity is little Didush (the youngest daughter), an invisible girl, almost everything she hears from family members: don't disturb, go to bed, watch TV, it's time for school... She's kind of gone. And at the same time, this child, who is practically not smiling, has the deepest sense of what is happening. Only she, of her own accord, wants to visit a dying grandfather she can't remember. The mother is busy with her exhibition, ambiguous art, trying to catch up, the years spent on raising children. She, in her own way, depicts the pain of her family in paintings, which shocks relatives.
In the process of watching, the days are counted down on the scoreboard, and all the chaos of family relations, passes against the background of the constantly turned on TV, where there is an incessant reality show, and the faces of “happy” participants who are about to become owners of something.
The individual scenes are simply masterpieces. The last moments of a dying grandfather, an unspoken reconciliation with his son, the moment when he first asks his youngest daughter about her school problems, and she begins to tell the story. Very well-chosen music enhances emotional perception. The plot is very realistic, the lines of all the characters are shown without falsehood. The author does not draw conclusions, he simply emphasizes, with the help of emotional influence, attention to individual moments, and the viewer pushes to think. High quality play, all actors without exception. However, I cannot but highlight the young Tess Hashiloni (Didush), an amazing game of the girl.
In a word, I do not see any drawbacks in the picture (although, personally, I would throw out the lesbian theme), so the assessment is maximum.
10 out of 10