Turn Left at the End of the World
by Avi Nesher
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Actor: Aure Atika, Efrat Aviv, Evelin Hagoel, Jean Benguigui, Parmeet SethiDirector: Avi Nesher
Cinematographer: David Gurfinkel
Composer: Krishna Levy
Editor: Isaac Sehayek
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Import, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sisu Home Ent.
Movie Reviews of Turn Left at the End of the World
Movie Review: Diversity, Israeli-style
Summary: 5 Stars
This film, set in a dusty 1960s Negev town inhabited by Moroccan and Indian Jewish immigrants, should forever dispel the absurd notion that Israel's Jewish populace now or ever composed a homogenious race.
When te large Jewish Talkar family arrives from Mumbai (then Bombay), their literate, worldly teenage daughter Sarah (Liraz Charchi) immediately begins keeping her journal, despite warnings from her new Moroccan Jewish acquaintance, Nicole (Netta Garti), that the Negeve community offers nothing to write about.
Meanwhile, Sarah's father Roger (Parmeet Sethi) comes to work in the town's only employment source---a soda bottling factory---dressed in the white business suit he was expected to wear in Bombay offices. All the while the French-speaking Moroccans, themselves also hailing from an upper crust of their native society, ridicule the Indians for their form of dress, their many children and their attitudes. Nicole's mother Jeannette (Ruby Porat Shoval) voices especially harsh criticism of the Indians, discouraging her daughter from visiting them.
No in this desert environment expects Indian and Moroccan Jews to get along. But Sarah and Nicole defy these predictions and form a close friendship, at the instigation of Moroccan widow Simone (Aure Atika), who sets Nicole on the newcomers like a spy. The girls' friendship is real enough, although unbeknownst to her, Sarah's father Roger cozies up Simone and establishes a hot affair.
During all the personal intrigue, the film also explores the bottling workers' relations between one another and their absentee bosses, who refuse to give them a raise despite rampant inflation. The workers agree to go on strike, but rather than capitulate, the company shutters the factory all together, leaving everyone in the community---Moroccan snobs and Indian newcomers alike---bereft and impoverished.
The story is full of ironic developments and strange outcomes, including the attraction of news reporters to the workers' plight by---of all things---the Indians' organization of a local cricket team.
This is a delightful film, and will educate viewers about the surprising racial and ethnic diversity of Jewish people even in the Jewish state.
---Alyssa A. Lappen
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