The Kindergarten Teacher (Haganenet) (2015)
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Cast
as Nira
as Yoav
as Miri
as Nira's Husband
as Amnon
as Miri, the Babysitter
as Aharon Pollak
as Kindergarten Teaching Assistant
as The Poetry Teacher
as Assi
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A perplexing but all-too-human psychological drama ...
Poetry is dead - but maybe a five-year-old boy can save it, with the help of his kindergarten teacher.
Lapid, following his acclaimed 2014 hostage drama "Policeman," clearly has a lot on his mind here. But he tells his overlong story in such a diffuse, at times elliptical way that his reach exceeds its grasp.
Keeps its audience rapt until the quietly shattering conclusion.
A self-assured, remarkably powerful film from the Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid.
What is weird, and ultimately destructive, is the way that The Kindergarten Teacher conceptualizes its child prodigy.
Audience Reviews for The Kindergarten Teacher (Haganenet)
It has a curious premise, like a modern version of Amadeus (only with poetry, an unappreciated art form in our days, in lieu of music), following a madly obsessed woman who exploits a poor child to whom the gift of art comes so easy, but the film drags and feels a bit repetitive at times.
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By night, Nira(Sarit Larry) attends a creative writing group. By day, she is a kindergarten teacher. One of her charges is five year old Yoav(Avi Shnaidman) who displays a prodigious talent at poetry which Nira talks about with Yoav's nanny Miri(Ester Rada) who also wants to be an actress. Aside from pointing out that there is nothing more dangerous than a failed intellectual(which is a better explanation for Nira's actions than simple empty nest syndrome), "The Kindergarten Teacher" also has quite a few things to say about the class structure in Israel. Writer-director Napav Lapid then takes those expectations and subverts them neatly throughout, even though he has a tendency to rely on extreme close-ups a bit too much.
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