V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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This astonishingly moving film depicts a group of elderly<br />
kibbutz inhabitants who wake up one morning to find that<br />
everyone else has abandoned them. It seems their beloved<br />
kibbutz is broke, and with it their old-fashioned dreams for a<br />
meaningful, cooperative future are halted. Yuppie developers<br />
are salivating over the land, which they want to transform into<br />
a disco-gambling complex a la Las Vegas. The 12 self-styled<br />
“Eskimos,” taking their name from the supposed Eskimo<br />
custom of leaving their elderly to die alone, are shocked from<br />
drowsy complacency into action. They unite in their goal of<br />
defending their home in ways they never did as members of the<br />
kibbutz. While a serious subject, the story plays out as a wry<br />
comedy in which the elders not only find ways to survive, but<br />
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old man, left his village ten years<br />
before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that<br />
his father, a traveling grocer, is in the hospital after a stroke,<br />
he reluctantly returns to replace him in his daily rounds. Back<br />
in the village, accompanied by Claire, a young woman he loves<br />
but who hesitates to commit herself, he does the job halfsatisfactorily.<br />
Too blunt, not in harmony with the locals, he<br />
offends them more than he serves them. Fortunately Claire,<br />
who has more business acumen, helps him to improve his<br />
skills. Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the<br />
country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially<br />
seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny<br />
and endearing. On the other hand, the relationships are tense<br />
the galIlee eskImos<br />
(eskImosIm ba galIl)<br />
Winner Best <strong>Film</strong> Berlin Jewish <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
WED NOV 5 8:00 PM-9:40 PM<br />
THuRS NOV 6 5:10 PM-6:55 PM<br />
FRI NOV 7 12:00 PM-1:45 PM<br />
SPONSORED BY: COAST PRESS/BEACHCOMBER/DELMARVANOW!COM<br />
prepare to kick butt and take names. The filmmakers’ love for<br />
their subject is evident: writer Joshua Sobol, the great Israeli<br />
playwright, lived on a kibbutz for eight years, and co-author/<br />
director Jonathan Paz dedicates his story to his parents,<br />
founders of the kibbutz movement. Their finely-wrought film,<br />
featuring marvelous performances by all the “Eskimos,” is full<br />
to bursting with yearning for the past, but also of hope for the<br />
future.<br />
[Dir. Jonathan Paz, 2007, israel, 35mm, 99 mins. in hebrew<br />
with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.eskimosim.com<br />
the grocers son<br />
(le fIls de l’epIcIer)<br />
THuRS NOV 6 4:20 PM-6:05 PM<br />
FRI NOV 7 12:30 PM-2:15 PM<br />
SAT NOV 8 12:25 PM-2:10 PM<br />
with his brother François and even worse with his father, who<br />
despises him. So when the latter is back in the village, the<br />
situation deteriorates. The film is a gorgeous, modest, and<br />
quietly intoxicating valentine to rural life that is ultimately,<br />
about the coming-of-age of a man rediscovering life and love<br />
in the countryside. This small gem of a film is the second<br />
feature directed by Éric Guirado, who prepared for it by filming<br />
portraits of traveling tradesmen in southern and central<br />
France.<br />
[Dir. Eric Guirado, 2007, France, 96 mins. in French with<br />
English subtitles]<br />
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