Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Script: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Cinematographer: Yaron Sharf
Editor: Joël Alexis
Sound: Yochai Moshe
Music: Michel Korb
Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gilbert Melki, Sulika Kadosh, Dalia Malka Beger, Kobi Regev, Omer Moskovich, Yam Eitan
Prod: Zanagar Films, Transfax Films
Distribution:
Sophie Dulac Distribution
60, rue Pierre Charron
F - 75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 44 43 46 00
[email protected]
www.sdditribution.fr
Year: 2004
Screening: 2020
35 mm, Colour, 97 min,
OV Hebrew with French Subtitles
Haifa, June 1979. The story unfolds in Israel during the three days before the Shabbat starts. Once more, Viviane is about to leave her husband, Eliahou. Once more, her brothers manage to persuade her that her place is with her husband, her children and her family. Although she is tired of this existence that denies her dreams and rights, and weary of her husband who favours traditions to the detriment of their marriage, Viviane stays but she is at the end of her tether. At the same time, Albert, a man she had loved, comes back into her life. A man, who had been able, for too brief a time, to offer her what all the other men in her life had always refused to give her: the freedom to be herself.
“This film is a portrait of a woman who tries to break down social barriers and fight for love, femininity, relationships and emotions that are stifled by daily routine and obligations.” Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz.