Post by breckjensen on Sept 27, 2017 12:18:49 GMT
A middle-aged bachelor discovers he had a son in Savi Gabizon’s offbeat exploration of fatherhood.
Already a winner of screenplay and audience awards in Israel before it bowed in Venice and Toronto, Longing (Ga’agua) takes an oblique look at the meaning of fatherhood in the story of a middle-aged man who belatedly learns he had a son. The fact that the boy is dead only whets his now unfulfillable desire to be a parent. Writer-director Savi Gabizon (Nina’s Tragedies) daringly explores this premise as an ironic, gently melancholic black comedy, whose twists and turns build to a sobering climax. It’s a charming niche film for adults that pleases while it makes some wise points.
Shai Avivi plays Ariel, a white-bearded bachelor who is spartanly described as a factory owner. One day he meets his old college girlfriend Ronit (Asi Levi of Wedding Doll) in a trendy restaurant. They haven’t seen each other in 20 years. Spurning Ariel’s small talk, she drops the bomb: When they split up, she was pregnant.
But then the second explosion: Their son Adam recently drove his car off a bridge and was killed. “You need to know,” she blurts out before running out of the restaurant.
Already a winner of screenplay and audience awards in Israel before it bowed in Venice and Toronto, Longing (Ga’agua) takes an oblique look at the meaning of fatherhood in the story of a middle-aged man who belatedly learns he had a son. The fact that the boy is dead only whets his now unfulfillable desire to be a parent. Writer-director Savi Gabizon (Nina’s Tragedies) daringly explores this premise as an ironic, gently melancholic black comedy, whose twists and turns build to a sobering climax. It’s a charming niche film for adults that pleases while it makes some wise points.
Shai Avivi plays Ariel, a white-bearded bachelor who is spartanly described as a factory owner. One day he meets his old college girlfriend Ronit (Asi Levi of Wedding Doll) in a trendy restaurant. They haven’t seen each other in 20 years. Spurning Ariel’s small talk, she drops the bomb: When they split up, she was pregnant.
But then the second explosion: Their son Adam recently drove his car off a bridge and was killed. “You need to know,” she blurts out before running out of the restaurant.
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