The Milky Way, directed by Maya Kenig, is a quirky parable about young mothers and how they relate to being chained down by breast feeding.
Tala is a single woman, an offbeat singer who has just given birth to a baby girl. She lives with her mother, who is trying to help out. Tala finds work at a factory where dozens of young mothers are pumping breast milk for sale. This place is a big business, with pumping stations, a bottling plant with an enormous conveyor belt carrying the bottles filled with breast milk, and even a fleet of delivery trucks.
Through a series of charming incidents, Tala meets Nili who is a client and whose baby is thriving on Tala’s breast milk. Tala learns a lot from Nili’s lonely lifestyle, and it helps her to appreciate and understand her own relationships – with her mother, with her baby daughter, and even with the father of her baby.
Although a bit strange, this film, which is about
motherhood, about connecting to your baby, and about the difficulties of being
a single mom, includes great acting, a super script, and tremendous charm. The film is filled with humor but also angst
and pathos.
Filmmaker Maya Kenig is known for her previous films, the quirky Off-white Lies, starring her husband Gur Bentwich, and the charming Bentwich Syndrome, co-directed with her husband, both of which have been reviewed previously on this blog.
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