The Israeli academy showered awards—best picture, director, screenplay, editing, cinematography, sound, costumes, actress, supporting actress, supporting actor—on this coming-of-age story, which makes its modest whimsy even harder to get excited about. The title character, played by the stunning Ayelet July Zurer, loses her abrasive husband to a terrorist bombing but eventually falls for a handsome photographer (Alon Aboutboul), unaware that a purer love hovers just outside her window in the form of her adoring, frequently masturbating nephew (Aviv Elkabets). Savi Gabizon directed his own script. In Hebrew with subtitles. 110 min.
By J.R. Jones
