Invisible (film)
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Michal Aviad Producer Ronen Ben Tal Duration Language Hebrew | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Michal Aviad, Tal Omer Country Israel
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Release date February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14) (Berlin) Writer Michal Aviad, Tal Omer (screenplay) Cast Jenya Dodina (Nira), Ronit Elkabetz (Lily), Sivan Levy (Dana), Gil Frank (Amnon)Similar movies Ronit Elkabetz appears in Invisible and directed To Take a Wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Two women meet randomly and discover they were raped by the same man years earlier. Together they face their pasts to heal and move on.
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Invisible (Hebrew: ?) is a 2011 Israeli film directed by Michal Aviad. It premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011 where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. The film is based on a series of rapes that occurred in Tel Aviv during 1977–1978. Testimonies of the original victims are interlaced into the film.
Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
Plot
Lily and Nira are brought together over a shared trauma; they were both victims of a serial rapist twenty years earlier. Together they begin to research the crimes and the fate of their perpetrator.
Cast
Similar Movies
Ronit Elkabetz appears in Invisible and directed To Take a Wife. Lipstikka (2011). Restoration (2011). Ronit Elkabetz appears in Invisible and ShChur. Ronit Elkabetz appears in Invisible and Jaffa.
Reception
Screen Daily described the film as "powerful and provocative". The reviewer praised the lead actresses; "Ronit Elkabetz makes a striking impact.. with her glacial aloofness meshing perfectly with the character of the forthright Lily." The reviewer continued to describe Dodina as "Equally fine". The review concludes that Aviad does not exploit the subject matter, but allows the "story of two women dealing with a long repressed trauma be told in an engrossing and emotive manner."
The film won in citation from the jury in panorama category at the Berlin International Film Festival. It won the best film prize and Yevgeniya Dodina won the best actress prize in Haifa International Film Festival in October 2011.
References
Invisible (film) WikipediaInvisible (film) IMDb Invisible (film) themoviedb.org