The depressing atmosphere was fitting the movie and I do think it was important to understand the way things are being treated in this family, but the movie missed either a closure or some kind of a saying. Even if the purpose of the film was to say that sometimes life just doesn't have any solutions, resolutions, or a closure, I still think that a movie of this kind should not leave out a progression of a plot.

I enjoyed most of it - but on the other hand I think it's a miss.

Yet another film about unresolved grief, only with writer/director Nimrod Eldar it is merely a pretext for something much greater-namely the pathology of an entire nation. A year after his wife's demise Tel Aviv veterinarian Yoram is still so wrapped up in his own pain he's unable to see it reflected in they eyes of Roni, his taciturn seventeen-year old daughter. Living like roommates rather than father and child, he exhibits more compassion for the animals in his care while she derives what comfort she can from strangers on social media. And then Roni attempts suicide and Yoram, not knowing what else to do, takes her to visit relatives upon her release from hospital-a visit that will open more wounds than it closes. Against a backdrop of sinkholes, circuses, and the empty trappings of religion, the disconnect between father and daughter plays out on a much larger stage with an older generation unable to communicate with the younger-in the case of a deaf adolescent, quite literally. With nothing to offer their children but criticism (or a plywood memorial if they should die in battle),Roni's older relatives are too busy shouting and blaming to actually hear a response. Even an impromptu "intervention" aimed at helping the young girl turns into a eulogy of sorts for her dead mother instead. Beautifully filmed with scenes that use Israel's arid landscapes and congested cityscapes to full effect, this is both a warm humanist drama about two injured people stumbling towards absolution (note whose behind the steering wheel) and a caustic examination of a generational/idealism gap that turns families into strangers.

It is noot hard to understand that the average rating of this film is quite low. For it is kind of, that goes against the prevailing trends. But it is extremely beautifull movie. One of few that spares dialogues, but speaks with silence. Congratulations.