Intimate Grammar (Hadikduk HaPnimi)

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Summary

Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival and the Sakura Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film, an adaptation of David Grossman's best selling book "The Book of Intimate Grammar", is a sensitive study of an inner journey rich in detailed observation. The film shows our hero, Aharon Kleinfeld, a sensitive, lonely boy whose romantic ideals are at odds with everyone and everything around him. With his Bar Mitzvah on the horizon he is striving to survive his domineering mother, his anti-intellectual father and his own diminutive stature in a setting of a lower-middle-class housing development where gossip is rampant and appearances are all important. Bergman once again distinguishes himself as a director who can skillfully translate the inner world of both children and adults into the language of cinema. He also brilliantly captures the atmosphere of Israel in the early 1960s, as the country was itself coming of age.

RATED: PG (theme of suicide)

Vancouver Premiere

Year: 2010
Genre: Narrative
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Subject: Coming of Age
Run time: 107 minutes
Format: DigiBeta

Director: Nir Bergmann
Cast: Orly Zilbershatz, Yehuda Almagor, Roee Elsberg, Rivka Gur, Yael Sgerski, Evelyn Kaplun