Zero Motivation
Opens as bleak, rebellious comedy but grows into a smart and moving story of entering adulthood ... Lavie pulls off...daring tonal shifts.
Zero Motivation
A smash hit in Israel and winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Zero Motivation is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie's brilliant debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do.
Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv. The indolent twosome are watched over by their aspiring senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who dreams of a higher position and a significant military career, but with a platoon of unskilled, idle, female soldiers without any drive under her charge, her ambitions for promotion are constantly thwarted. With shifts of tone that go from slapstick to satiric to horrifying with fluid ease, and with a superb supporting cast of characters, Zero Motivation is destined to be one of the most talked about films of the year.
Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv. The indolent twosome are watched over by their aspiring senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who dreams of a higher position and a significant military career, but with a platoon of unskilled, idle, female soldiers without any drive under her charge, her ambitions for promotion are constantly thwarted. With shifts of tone that go from slapstick to satiric to horrifying with fluid ease, and with a superb supporting cast of characters, Zero Motivation is destined to be one of the most talked about films of the year.
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
Runtime
100
Language
Hebrew
Director
Talya Lavie
Cast
Dana Ivgy,
Nelly Tagar,
Shani Klein
FEATURED REVIEW
Miriam Krule, Slate
Just a few minutes into the Israeli film Zero Motivation, we’re introduced to a staple gun—a prized possession kept hidden in an Israel Defense Forces filing cabinet. What at first seems like a joke—Daffi (Nelly Tagar) describes it as “the most precious thing in the office”—is actually the most ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 10.26.14 - 10.26.14
Royal 1.24.15 - 1.25.15
Town Center 5 1.24.15 - 1.25.15
Playhouse 7 1.24.15 - 1.25.15
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