Fill the Void
For its clarity and lack of pretension alone, ‘Void’ stands apart ... beautifully acted
Fill the Void
Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) is the youngest daughter of the family and is about to be married off to a very promising young man of the same age. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther (Renana Raz), dies during childbirth, leaving her husband to care for the child and postponing Shira's promised match. 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, which leaves Shira to choose between her heart's wish and her family's wish to keep the child with them. FILL THE VOID was the 2012 Venice Film Festival winner for Best Actress (Yaron), and was the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. It was also featured in the Spotlight Program at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
90
Language
Hebrew
Director
Rama Burshtein
Cast
Hila Feldman,
Razia Israeli,
Yiftach Klein,
Hadas Yaron
Awards:
Winner, Volpi Cup ~ Best Actress, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Andrew Schenker,Slant Magazine
Employing long static takes, restricting her shots largely to interiors and strategically alternating between depth staging and blurry backgrounds, Rama Burshtein brings a sense of inevitability and constriction to the insular world of Israeli Hassidic Judaism in Fill the Void that neatly highlights ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 4.21.13 - 4.21.13
Royal 5.24.13 - 7.11.13
Playhouse 7 5.31.13 - 6.13.13
Town Center 5 5.31.13 - 7.25.13
Monica Film Center 7.12.13 - 7.18.13
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