DIRECTOR: Ayelet Menahemi
DURATION: 100 mins
GENRE: Comedy/Drama
LANGUAGE: Hebrew & Mandarin with English Subtitles
Synopsis:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
Review:
This is an excellent film! Totally worth skipping dinner and catching it in the first row seat at The Picturehouse. It's the best film I've caught in a while. Not relying on CG, special effects or big celebrities, the film tells a story that is so funny but not slapstick and so touching but not overly emotional. The dialogues are so witty and yet totally believable, it's like what we can expect in our everyday lives. Never have I laughed so heartily or felt so heart-tuggingly touched in a while. It was thoroughly enjoyable from start to end.
Not all film fest movies are arty farty. This is simply good storytelling in another language.
In the screening we saw, there were English subtitles only for the Hebrew dialogues and none for the Mandarin parts. It is because the director wanted to let the audience feel as helpless as the Israeli characters in the film did when they dealt with the Chinese boy. But of cos we couldn't experience that helplessness since we're Chinese.
I've attached here 2 excerpts from the film. Unfortunately, there are no subtitles, but you can view it from the other perspective and experience the helplessness that the cute Chinese boy did when he was dealing with the Israelis, and see why the Israelis named him Noodle.
DURATION: 100 mins
GENRE: Comedy/Drama
LANGUAGE: Hebrew & Mandarin with English Subtitles
Synopsis:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
Review:
This is an excellent film! Totally worth skipping dinner and catching it in the first row seat at The Picturehouse. It's the best film I've caught in a while. Not relying on CG, special effects or big celebrities, the film tells a story that is so funny but not slapstick and so touching but not overly emotional. The dialogues are so witty and yet totally believable, it's like what we can expect in our everyday lives. Never have I laughed so heartily or felt so heart-tuggingly touched in a while. It was thoroughly enjoyable from start to end.
Not all film fest movies are arty farty. This is simply good storytelling in another language.
In the screening we saw, there were English subtitles only for the Hebrew dialogues and none for the Mandarin parts. It is because the director wanted to let the audience feel as helpless as the Israeli characters in the film did when they dealt with the Chinese boy. But of cos we couldn't experience that helplessness since we're Chinese.
I've attached here 2 excerpts from the film. Unfortunately, there are no subtitles, but you can view it from the other perspective and experience the helplessness that the cute Chinese boy did when he was dealing with the Israelis, and see why the Israelis named him Noodle.
1 comment:
Well done!
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