Its emotions prove curiously inconsistent, hinting at darkness but never committing fully.
A Strange Course Of Events(Me'al Ha-giva)
France, Israel · 2013
1h 38m
Director Raphaël Nadjari
Starring Ori Pfeffer, Moni Moshonov, Michaela Eshet, Maya Kenig
Genre Drama
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Shaul (Uri Pepper), the film’s protagonist, a solitary divorced man, tries to overcome his difficult emotional state. He goes to see his father Shimon (Moni Moshonov) in Haifa and confronts him, blaming his father for all his current woes. Shimon and his partner Betty (Michaela Eshet), try to help Shaul with alternative methods, using stones with magical attributes and therapeutic oils. With their help, Shaul becomes much more optimistic…
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold
Mr. Nadjari, who wrote the screenplay with Geoffroy Grison, may have been intending a minimalist character study, but even so, he has abdicated his responsibility: Too much of this family drama is left to the audience to fill in.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A film about ordinary people doing nothing is a tricky thing, quickly numbing the audience to sleep unless the screenplay is electrifying and the actors greatly appealing. Unfortunately, neither of these is true of Rafael Nadjari’s A Strange Course of Events, which is anything but strange and eventful.
Too often the pic feels as if it’s killing time to pad itself out into feature length.
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