1984 · drama · kibbutz · romance
Atalia
Directed by Akiva Tevet, Tzvika Kertzner1h 30m1984
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.
Our read: Atalia (1984) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · kibbutz · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / kibbutz, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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