Sometimes writers need to remember what the film is primarily narrative in pictures. And paradoxically, are just two writers, artisans of the word, to tell in pictures, with the key of surrealism, our inability to communicate.
Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, their debut behind the camera, the interwoven stories of three women, each of which embodies a different aspect (or face) of isolation.
A former waitress unhappy with their life, looking herself ... by herself, through the link with his childhood with his memories, thanks to the encounter with a magical girl (herself?) Exit from the sea (from life, from the past, the memories from our subconscious.) A carer
Filipino, unable to communicate, looking for work in Tel-Aviv, away from home, away from that child to whom he can not buy the much-desired toy (by chance a ship, the sea returns). The distance from home, the bond with their land and loved ones. A distance that seems impossible to fill, but that will prove to be possible thanks to the language of feelings that broke through the barrier dialectics.
Finally, a new bride, bedridden from a leg in plaster. The one who lives alone in a physical manner, unable to move and why, caged in his hotel room, he entrusts his thoughts on paper, the written word. The sea She can not even see it from window and so it materializes in his poetry which will be then perfect farewell letter to a suicide.
Their lives floating in a sea that is vast and feel of distant from the world, from their loved ones or themselves, these women are desperate to find an anchor to hold on to restore meaning to their existence, stop feeling so at the mercy of the waves. We are all
jellyfish. We all let ourselves be pushed from power, incapable of governing our bikes into the sea and so we end up with the island, with the fear of what surrounds us.
A small film, and how often universal, sensitive and poetic. At the same time realistic and surreal. A film that plays like that, thanks to the images and metaphors to tell a strong and fragile humanity in equal measure.
An amazing debut, having also the source of the two artistic directors, that a new perspective to the stories corals, the events that intertwine more lives, more lives that eventually meet, touch, collide with each other. This time the lives and never touch the thread that unites them is loneliness. A great script that balances well the rhythm of a story and characters that draw us another offering, thanks to a good dose of magic.
0 comments:
Post a Comment