Director:

Eitan Tzur

Naomi
Israel | 90 minutes Genre: Drama Language: Hebrew/Arabic/Russian w/English subtitles

Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 12th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Israel meets Alfred Hitchcock might well serve as the sub-title for this film. Naomi is a psychological thriller wherein on the surface, seemingly normal behavior and lives are shattered first by rumblings, and then the earthquake of events underneath. All the potential for a cataclysmic human tragedy is here. A May-December marriage is intensified by a lack of wholesome communication and the boiling up of suspicions and fears, unspoken at least by the two people who need most to face them. Add in the ultimate traditional Jewish mother speaking her mind and protecting her not so young baby boy against all who or what might hurt him. Like all Hitchcockian drama, uneasiness and uncertainty joins with the suspicion, given that much is said not through the dialogue, but through characterization and facial and body expression. In other words, this is a brilliantly acted film. You will want to see it through to its unanticipated conclusion.

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy, 2010:

- Nominated, Best Actor, Yossi Pollak

- Nominated, Best Supporting Actress, Orna Porat

- Nominated, Best Screen Play, Edna Mazia

Naomi