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Scaffolding(פיגומים)

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Israel, Poland · 2017
1h 28m
Director Matan Yair
Starring Asher Lax, Ami Smolarchik, Yakov Cohen, Keren Berger
Genre Drama

In this coming-of-age drama, impulsive, charming, and sometimes-belligerent 17-year-old Asher finds himself struggling to choose between his father's expectation that he will take over the family scaffolding business and the new worldview he finds presented to him by his charismatic literature teacher.

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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Rife with heavy-handed metaphors — and discussions of metaphors, as befits a movie about a young man studying literature — Scaffolding seems somewhat torn when it comes to telegraphing its own intentions. Its ambiguities of character take a back seat to a trite upshot.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

Like the structures it is named after, the movie hinges on a rudimentary narrative that builds in momentum as the plot progresses, leading to a single act of defiance in the final reel.

80

Screen International by Nikki Baughan

Israeli teacher-turned-filmmaker Matan Yair mines his own experiences for Scaffolding, bringing depth and poignancy to what could have otherwise been a familiar tale.

80

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Reminiscent of the naturalistic social dramas made by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Scaffolding combines the nervous tension of a thriller about a bomb waiting to go off — Lax’s volatility is as nail-biting as his bursts of compassion are relief-inducing — and the mournful clarity of a fly-on-the-wall documentary about troubled students.

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