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Fill the Void
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Fill the Void tells the story of Shira, a very devout Hasidic girl who is arriving at the point of her life where she is pressured into an arranged levirate marriage to an older widower, which is what happens in her community.Â
Fill the Void tells the story of Shira, a very devout Hasidic girl who is arriving at the point of her life where she is pressured into an arranged levirate marriage to an older widower, which is what happens in her community.Â
Actors:
Neta Moran,
Yiftach Klein,
Melech Thal,
Hila Feldman,
Ido Samuel,
Renana Raz,
Hadas Yaron,
Chayim Sharir,
Michael Weigel,
Irit Sheleg,
Yael Tal,
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Neta Moran
28 March 1959, Yagur, Israel
Yiftach Klein
1972, Tel Aviv, Israel
Melech Thal
Hila Feldman
Ido Samuel
Renana Raz
29 July 1978, Israel
Hadas Yaron
21 September 1990, Israel
Chayim Sharir
Michael Weigel
1 April 1970, Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Irit Sheleg
15 April 1958, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yael Tal
Director:
Rama Burshtein
Rama Burshtein
1967, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
Israel
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February 28, 2014
...an entertaining yet uneven debut from a promising new filmmaker...
July 30, 2013
Beautiful and mysterious, the[se] first glimpses are an ideal primer for the Israeli film, which never rushes to spell out the meanings of its subtle and quiet moments.
February 06, 2014
As opposed to the bleak view of sexual subjugation in Kadosh, Amos Gitai's 1999 film about Hasidic marriage, Fill the Void sees Burshtein fortrightly and wittily asserting that this is how her community lives.
June 14, 2013
[Burshtein] vividly depicts a clannish culture that is likely to feel foreign and perhaps off-putting to generations that came of age in a progressive post-feminist era.
April 09, 2014
A man and a woman, alone, on a path at night, forbidden to touch, speak, confront, describe passion: the man moves closer. That's all. The smallest of moves, infinitesimal motion. The world tilts on its axis.
October 05, 2016
Burhstein's slow-paced, carefully edited work illuminates concepts of filial piety, female agency, and patriarchy.
December 09, 2013
This is an extraordinary first film, nerve-tingling in its intensity, and assembled with a finesse and control even the great Austrian director Michael Haneke might envy.
June 20, 2013
Burshtein creates a one-of-a-kind portrait that nonetheless transcends its setting, and even its worldview; the dynamics are global.
May 23, 2014
Emotional issues an an insular world
July 11, 2013
It's an artful, character-driven drama that constitutes a minor miracle of empathy.
February 28, 2016
It's not a great movie, but it's a humane and touching one.
June 20, 2013
Burshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains, an ambiguous tragedy drawing on universal themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice and self-preservation.

