Summaries

A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father's illness threatens to cut their quest short.

A highly personal story of the director's relationship with his father, their love of cinema and his father's illness: "Although Tel Aviv burns to the ground at the end of the fictional film I tried to make with my father, his real world does not end with a bang, but with a slow, fading crumble."

A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father's cancer threatens to cut their quest short. While the father is unsentimental in his approach toward his imminent death, his son disconnects from reality in a desperate last attempt to see his father as a hero. Tel Aviv goes up in flames in the fictional story, but the father's real world does not end with a bang but with a slow vanishing whimper.—Dani Rosenberg

Details

Keywords
  • father
  • son
  • cannes 2020
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Release date Aug 3, 2021
Countries of origin France Israel
Official sites Official Facebook
Language Hebrew
Production companies Tu Vas Voir Productions Pardes Films

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 43m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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