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- Summary: Focusing on the relationship between an Israeli woman and the Ethiopian Christian illegal woman she hires as a housekeeper, this film depicts the heartbreaking lives of many of the 300,000 foreign workers in Israel today. (Quad Cinema)
- Director: Dan Wolman
- Genre(s): Drama
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63Starts strongly and is bolstered by thoughtful performances.
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60Offers an incisive glimpse into one woman's inner transformation -- her secret sense of loss in the midst of plenty and her sudden perception of a world of suffering lying just beyond her home.
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50The particulars of her situation are well-imagined, but Wolman's characters remain little more than mouthpieces.
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50Wolman gets his point across, but he does so in such a predictable, contrived and sappy manner that viewers aren't likely to care. And the final plot twist is a cop-out.