Jaffa (2009 film)

  • Dana Ivgy: Mali Wolf
  • Moni Moshonov: Reuven Wolf
  • Ronit Elkabetz: Osnat " Ossi " Wolf
  • Mahmoud Shalaby: Toufik
  • Hussein Yassin Mahajne: Hassan
  • Ro'i Asaf Meir Wolf
  • Lili Ivgy: Shiran Wolf

Jaffa ( the eponymous city is dubbed "the Bride of the Sea " ) is a film by the Israeli director Keren Yedaya and tells of a "forbidden" love between a Jewish and an Arab. The resulting German-French involvement of production in 2009 was the same year in Cannes out of competition.

Action

The 21 -year-old Mali is the daughter of the Jewish auto repair shop owner Reuven Wolf, who also employs two Arabs beside her and his son Meir: Hassan and his son Toufik. The most frequent cause of tension in the workshop and in the Wolf family is the behavior Meir. As designated heir of the small family business he claimed privileges while also making next to nothing, but is labeled as a failure, particularly by his mother, a spoiled, capricious housewife. Another source of conflict is the family but hidden: Mali and Hassan are a couple. Since childhood friends, they meet secretly at night; Mali is also pregnant, and they are planning a secret wedding in Cyprus. On the morning of conscious day but instigates Meir (after an eviction and a night of drinking ) a dispute with Toufik to crashes unhappy and dies at the hospital. Toufik is sentenced to several years in prison for manslaughter. Mali decides to have an abortion, but lets pass the deadline. Your parents say that the child was of a married man, and encourages them to pull together. From Toufik she says herself away; in a letter she tells him she had an abortion.

Nine years later, Toufik is released early. He returns to the bosom of his family back, but immediately takes contact with Mali and asks her to meet him only once more. She does open only at the second attempt, however, confronted him at once with the full truth. He can not cope with and drives away. Now Mali decides to reveal her parents, who is the father of her daughter Shiran. She makes her absconding and leaving his parents a letter. Tracked down by them on the following day, it comes to confrontation and rupture; the last sentence of the mother is: You have destroyed this family.

The final image contains Mali and Shiran on the beach; they expect Toufik, the two approaches carefully.

Background

"I wanted to make a political film about Israel and Palestine. But I wanted to address a larger audience than the political theater ' usually can. I was seriously convinced that one could create a subversive work of art, without having to compromise to a wide audience. " Keren Yedaya

Criticism

"Tight and staged mock film that focuses on the conflict in the Middle East on a family. "

" The problem is only the last few minutes of the film, in which the writer seeks to answer the remaining questions with a little too much pressure declaration. Nevertheless, Keren Yedaya here is another movie succeeded in telling empathetic and realistic about life at the lower margins of society and at the same time creates the tentative utopia of love over enemies without boundaries blur. "

" Jaffa is a very intelligent -made political, but also social statement that is simultaneously saddened as well as hope. An important contribution, on the one should talk. Ultimately, this is exactly what is not made in the film. And the inability to communicate is what Yedaya denounces the most. "

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