A Beautiful Valley

A Beautiful Valley
Theatrical poster
Directed by Hadar Friedlich
Produced by Yael Fogiel
Yochanan Kredo
Eylon Ratzkovsky
Laetitia Gonzalez
Guy Jacoel
Yossi Uzrad
Written by Hadar Friedlich
Starring Batia Bar
Hadar Avigad
Gili Ben-Ozilio
Eli Ben-rey
Hadas Porat
Ruth Geller
Music by Uri Ophir
Cinematography Talia Galon
Edited by Hadar Friedlich
Nelly Quettier
Production
company
July August Productions
Distributed by Les Films du Poisson (France)
Release date
Running time
 86 minutes
Country Israel
France
Language Hebrew

A Beautiful Valley (Hebrew: עמק תפארת‬) is a 2011 Israeli drama by Hadar Friedlich. It was her feature directorial debut.

The film premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2011 where it received the award for Best Full-Length Debut. In a controversial decision by the festival management, however, the prize was revoked at the last minute following a complaint of alleged conflict of interest by one of the jury members.[1] It was also nominated for a 2011 Ophir Award in the Best Actress and Best Cinematography categories, received a Special Jury Mention at the San Sebastián International Film Festival,[2] and won the Critic's Prize at the Cinémed Montpellier Film Festival.[3]

Plot

Hanna Mendelssohn (Batia Bar), an elderly widow, is a proud founding member of her kibbutz and has devoted most of her life to its development. When it is threatened with bankruptcy and privatized, she is forced out of her job as the community's gardener, turning from a hardworking productive member of society into a dependent burden. Although she still believes in the values of social equality and cooperation that characterized the kibbutz in its early years, Hanna struggles to maintain her usefulness and sense of worth in a society undergoing a sudden and profound transformation.

Cast

  • Batia Bar as Hanna
  • Gili Ben-Ozilio as Yael
  • Hadar Avigad as Naama
  • Eli Ben-rey as Shimon
  • Hadas Porat as Odeda
  • Ruth Geller as Miriam

Critical reception

Jay Weissberg of Variety said Friedlich's debut "tackles a forgotten subject with sensitivity".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Nirit Anderman (19 July 2011), "No fury like a filmmaker scorned", Haaretz (retrieved 13 November 2012).
  2. ↑ Arielle Granat (11 November 2012), "Beautiful Valley de Hadar Friedlich" (retrieved 13 November 2012).
  3. ↑ Cinémed Montpellier Film Festival (retrieved 13 November 2012).
  4. ↑ Jay Weissberg (2 October 2011), "A Beautiful Valley", Variety (retrieved 13 November 2012).
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