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Or (My Treasure)
Series: Israel at 60 [May 28 - June 5]
Director: Keren Yedaya, Release: 2004, Runtime: 100

"Poignant and dark… A brilliant but unforgiving piece of work." - George Robinson, The Jewish Week

Yedaya's riveting psychological study focuses on Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz), an aging Tel Aviv prostitute and her 18-year-old daughter Or (Dana Ivgy, who won the Israeli Oscar for Best Actress for her performance). The winning if overly confident Or is convinced that she has all the right answers and that she can redirect her helpless mother into a new occupation, even to the point of locking Ruthie indoors. Yet the girl is not without her own sexual desires, which complicates her role as puritanical overseer.

Grounded in a rich specificity of detail about daily life in working-class Tel Aviv, this self-assured debut feature favors moral doubt over pat judgments, avoiding cliché and political speechmaking in a simple, direct visual style unerringly suited to its material. Screened in the New York Film Festival in 2004.

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