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No Longer 17
A Kibutz in Israel is heavily in debt. In a last effort to produce a viable financial restructuring, the old, "unproductive" members are asked to leave the kibutz, to make room for younger, more productive new members. Among those destined to leave is Shraga. His marriage to Clara is loveless while he desperately loves Bracha, his late brother's widow. Clara dreams of starting afresh with her husband in an old age home, in the far north of the country. Bracha on the other hand refuses to remain a mere no. 2. Shraga is asked to make a decision. Other family members are forced into joining this unresolvable conflict.
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This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
A few major characters from NOA AT 17 are back. Some forty years have passed in the historical background, and the characters seem to have aged by only twenty-five or so, but the inconsistency is easily forgiven for art's sake. There is so much to catch up on, though. The movie begins by introducing what you'd expect to be the engine of the plot-- a proposal to save money by sending the aged founders away from the very homes they built-- but it quickly detours to the complicated personal relationships within Noa's family. No fewer than three characters arrive separately from overseas to participate in the recounting of intervening action since the first movie. By the time we're caught up, we haven't got very far with the question that started the film but we've seen some fine acting and we have some then-and-now perspective on the characters, who are archetypes of recent Israeli generations. Instead of having forty years of family life emerge retrospectively from conversation, it would have been a treat to see it all played out in ten or twelve episodes, with these wonderful actors and characters, but what's true of the kibbutz budget is true of the Israeli film industry: the money just isn't there.Mr. Yeshurun, if you're reading this, please fill in the rest of the details of the cast and crew.
