My Daughter, My Love, direction and screenplay by Eitan Green, premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival last week. This is a film about marriage, friendship, and father-daughter relations.
Eitan Green is known to Israeli audiences for his previous
films: Lena (1982), When Night Falls (1985), As
Tears Go By (1996), Indoors (2006), and It All
Begins at Sea (2008).
This new film features Sasson Gabbai in the main role of
Shimon, a widower, who has flown to Paris to visit an old friend, Nissim, who
has been ill with heart problems and at the same time, to spend time with his
married daughter, Alma, and her family. Nissim
seems to be feeling better and together they spend time walking the streets of
Paris and talking about their children.
Quickly it becomes apparent that Alma’s marriage is breaking up. Feeling
concerned for Alma, who leaves her little baby in his care so she can chase
after her lover, he begins to interfere.
If you are a fan of Sasson Gabbai, there is plenty of him in
this film, in fact, he’s in just about every scene! And if you love Paris, there are great scenes
of Shimon and Nissim walking the streets of Paris. The story-line is thin, but
the character studies are great!
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