"The Kindergarten Teacher" - National Center for Jewish Film's Jewishfilm.2015
West Newton Cinema West Newton, MA
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"The Kindergarten Teacher" - National Center for Jewish Film's Jewishfilm.2015
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
DAY OF SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT NCJF TABLE IN LOBBY OF WEST NEWTON CINEMA, BEGINNING AT 11 AM SUNDAY, MAY 10.
Sun, May 10, 7:30 pm at West Newton Cinema
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
Lauded at the Cannes Film Festival and fresh from Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films, Nadav Lapid's follow-up to his explosive debut film The Policeman (NCJF's JF.2012), is a brilliant, inventive drama told in this auteur's singular voice. Tel Aviv kindergarten teacher Nira (Sarit Larry) becomes obsessed with one of her charges, Yoav (Avi Shnaidman), a gentle 5-year-old with an otherworldly gift for declaiming perfectly formed poems on love and loss. Yoav's versesLapid's own childhood poemsawaken in Nira a protective, but increasingly extreme, impulse to shield him from a banal, materialistic culture that has little use for poetry and art. Beautiful, elusive, and unsettling, The Kindergarten Teacher will stay with you long after you've left the theater. "Often thrilling to beholdconfirms Lapid as a talent to be reckoned with." Hollywood Reporter
