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  • 2019
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2019
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Orna, (Liron Ben Shlush) is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to bal...

Directed By: Michal Aviad

Written By: Sharon Azulay Eyal, Michal Vinik, Michal Aviad

  • 2019
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2019
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Working Woman

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Orna, (Liron Ben Shlush) is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to bal...

Directed By: Michal Aviad

Written By: Sharon Azulay Eyal, Michal Vinik, Michal Aviad

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90
Apr 11, 2019
Working Woman is more than a feature that makes compelling drama out of workplace sexual harassment; it’s an excellent work by any standard, a subtle and insightful character-driven drama that will compel anyone who cares about the interplay of personalities on-screen.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 25, 2019
Michal Aviad’s film forcefully brings home a reality that many of us have been aware of only intellectually.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 28, 2019
Despite its surface-level placidity, the Israeli feature Working Woman unfolds like a psychological thriller — a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman’s life.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 25, 2019
The picture is a slow-burning but ultimately empowering drama that works despite a lack of the bigger, louder, more outwardly emotional moments it could have succumbed to.
By Elizabeth Kerr FULL REVIEW
75
May 13, 2019
This story of workplace abuse and its fallout could just as well take place in New York, Istanbul, Mumbai — or any other city. Orna is Everywoman. Like many other women in her shoes, she emerges scarred, but stronger and wiser.
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75
May 8, 2019
Without stooping to the uselessness of style, Working Woman makes its points simply by staying with Orna as she proceeds through stages of shock, humiliation, self-loathing, self-censorship, all emotions her husband finds difficult to understand and which the Bennys of the world rely on.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 26, 2019
Every moment indicates deep compassion for Orna, and anyone else who might be driven to see a multi-layered message movie for the #MeToo era.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lama Films, United King Films, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Art
Release Date Mar 29, 2019
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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