The next offering from Kirksville Film Circle: FILL THE VOID SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7PM PICKLERS FAMOUS in Downtown Kirksville Starring Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir Written & Directed by Rama Burshtein Israel’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Language Film 2012 In Hebrew with English subtitles Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Venice Film Festival 2012 New York Film Festival 2012 Best Actress Venice Film Festival 2012 FILL THE VOID tells the story of an Orthodox Hasidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream-come-true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. Everything changes when an offer is proposed to match Yochay – the late Esther‘s husband – to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it‘s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again.When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty. From the director: I love Jane Austen. She’s romantic, intelligent, and full of humor. I read her as a girl, and I’ve seen films based on her work. The parallel is also quite obvious in that FILL THE VOID takes place in a world where the rules are rigid and clear. The characters are not looking for some way to burst out of that world. Instead, they are trying to find a way to live within it. FILL THE VOID has a historical air about it. It could just have easily have been located in Poland of the last century, in Brooklyn, or now, in Tel Aviv. It is somewhat cut off from the modern world, and the complications that make up the plot and their resolution have much in common with the way Jane Austen tells a story. https://youtube/watch?v=7hoxulGKQ7g
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:08:54 +0000
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