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Things Behind the Sun

Camera 12 Theater, San Jose
San Jose, CA

THINGS BEHIND THE SUN (Devarim MeAchorey HaShemesh)

A debut feature from an emerging young Israeli director. This melodrama peers into the lives of the dysfunctional Grossman family, who are facing reconciliation after the wifeâs paintings expose her familyâs secrets. A nurse calls from the hospital to say that their elderly father and grandfather, whom they had not seen for 10 years, has taken a turn for the worse. She suggests that it might be a good time to visit. Each family member struggles to find love and intimacy with him while sealing themselves from the others. The youngest daughter does not reveal that she understands the English her parents use in private or that she has begun visiting the hospital. The older daughter conceals her lesbianism â even from herself. The 30-year-old son pretends to participate in life, but stays in his pajamas all day. The husband will not talk about the visits with his father, whose death seems suddenly less imminent. The wife, an artist on the verge of her long-awaited first major show, has not told her family how she used them in various nude forms in her art. No one discusses the reasons that the man in the hospital, once an integral part of the family, has been estranged from them for so long. As the family members begin to talk, they reveal their hidden information? The process by which the pretenses dissolve is entertaining and fascinating, without a single morbid moment.

Israel, 2006. Hebrew with subtitles.
Winner, Assi Dayan, Best Actor, 2006 Israeli Academy, âOphirâ Award, Jerusalem Film Festival.

Director: Yuval Shafferman Length: 110 Min

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Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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