It seems to happen at some point in everyone's life: you are permitted (or forced) to start over again from square one. That very thing happens to the protagonists of Israeli director Joseph Pitchhadze's latest film. Employing the popular multiple-stories genre, the director offers a portrait of contemporary life as seen in the everyday realities of several characters. The protagonists, connected by various relationships, must come to terms with unexpected, though transformational, reversals. Egoistical real estate agent Reuven is bothered by the fact that his wife suddenly becomes pregnant. A single mother named Anna has hit absolute bottom: Reuben kicks her out of their apartment, and when she cannot find a job she ends up as a prostitute. Then she meets forty-year-old Matti who is somehow mixed up in the underworld. A soundman named Frank becomes close to a co-worker, Reuben's wife, and gets to know his biological father, a onetime member of his parents' punk band.... These and many other people meet (or don't) and their lives unavoidably connect.
Directed by Joseph Pitchhadze
Writing credits Joseph Pitchhadze
Dov Stoyer
cast:
Yussuf Abu-Warda.... Unemployment Office Clerk
Jack Adalist.... The American
Sarah Adler.... Anna
Assaf Ashtar.... Interviewee in Eilat
Vladimir Friedman.... Placement Office Clerk
Sasson Gabai.... Guide-Dogs Trainer
Danny Geva.... Frank Kagan
Smadar Jaaron.... Eva
Ezra Kafri.... Robinson
Dror Keren.... Bruno Kagan (voice)
Uri Klauzner.... Shem-Tov
Ohad Knoller.... Bank Clerk
Roman Krihally.... The Killer
Keren Mor.... Michal
Moni Moshonov.... Eddie
Menashe Noy.... Re'uven
Tzuki Ringrat.... Tsuki
Eyal Shehter.... Boaz
Dan Toren.... Matti
Sharon Zelikovsky.... Vet