Antenna by Arik Rothstein is a compelling family drama which
mixes comedy, family relations, and tragedy.
All mixed in one.
Combining issues dealing with Holocaust memory, divorce,
family loyalty, relations with the neighbors, illness, and intermarriage, the
film tells the story of one typical Jewish Israeli family -- elderly parents
and their three grown sons.
The parents live in a two-family house, and the father
discovers that his neighbor has rented out his part of the roof to a cellphone
company for the installation of an antenna.
Believing that the radiation from the antenna is the cause of all of his
aches and pains, the father develops an obsession with the antenna and begins
to wage a war against his neighbor.
His three sons and their partners – all portrayed in a
complex manner and all very different from each other -- become involved in the struggle against the antenna -- Itzik,
a career army officer, is married with three kids; Leon, divorced, teaches
Holocaust literature at the university; and Effi, involved with a non-Jewish
woman from Germany, is dealing and smoking grass.
The subject of the antenna might make you think that this
film borders on the absurd. Rather, it
is a serious and authentic story about a family and the cellular antenna
represents more than just a neighbor’s greed – the father is a Holocaust
survivor and we begin to see that his paranoia is due to shadows from his past.
Contact Transfax Films for distribution information.
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