Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards in 2015 in every major category, “The Kind Words” was lauded by critics, including those of both the The New York Times and The L.A. Times.
The film opens in the distant past, with a young couple who have run away together, but are thwarted when the girl’s male relatives take her away kicking and screaming, and then beat up the boy.
Cut to the present in Israel, and the Baruchs, three thirtyish Jerusalem siblings, discover a mystery after their mother’s death that they set out to solve. Following in their footsteps is their father, who fairly recently dumped their mother, Yona, for a younger woman.
Daughter, Darona (award winner, Rotem Zisman - Cohen) is desperate for children but prone to miscarriages. She tries to separate from her devoted husband Ricki (Tshai Halevi, “Bethlehem,” “Fauda,” “Forgiveness”) who still wants her. Dorona’s gay younger brother, Shai, has a wife and daughter abroad, and the eldest sibling, Netanel, turned Orthodox when he married an American who gave birth to triplets. They’re tight-knit, but all resent and shun their father for discarding the now dead Yoni. Multiple award winner and prolific actor, Sasson Gabay, is credited only as “The Father.”
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