Two strong lead performances and a talented supporting cast anchor Sunday’s Jewish Film Festival offering, “Shoelaces,” directed by Jacob
Goldwasser, about an ageing auto mechanic (award-winning Dov Glickman), who finds himself the temporary guardian of his long abandoned, special needs son.
“Shoelaces,” nominated for 8 Israeli Film awards, explores the father-son relationship through a different lens from last week’s film, “Longing,” in which a father never knew his son and tried to reverse the past: In “Shoelaces,” Reuven, gets the second chance Ariel never had, but that Reuven never wanted, especially since he left the family because he couldn’t cope with Gadi’s mental challenges.
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