Off-White Lies
Directed by Maya Kenig
Written by Maya Kenig and Dana Diment
Israel/France, 2011
As a parent, you can’t prepare the world for your children; the best you can do is prepare your children for the world. So what happens when a homeless, estranged father readopts his teenage daughter amongst the backdrop of a war?
Although from wildly different genres, Maya Kenig’s Off-White Lies shares many thematic concepts with Luc Besson’s The Professional. Both are about men that are unqualified to be parental guardians, both by nature and by circumstance, but both have an adolescent girl thrust into their care. In fact, both girls seem to be avid botanists, trying to nurture plants in environments that are inhospitable for themselves (this is, of course, a metaphor).
After living in California with her mother for most of her life, 13-year old Libby (Elya Inbar) is...
Directed by Maya Kenig
Written by Maya Kenig and Dana Diment
Israel/France, 2011
As a parent, you can’t prepare the world for your children; the best you can do is prepare your children for the world. So what happens when a homeless, estranged father readopts his teenage daughter amongst the backdrop of a war?
Although from wildly different genres, Maya Kenig’s Off-White Lies shares many thematic concepts with Luc Besson’s The Professional. Both are about men that are unqualified to be parental guardians, both by nature and by circumstance, but both have an adolescent girl thrust into their care. In fact, both girls seem to be avid botanists, trying to nurture plants in environments that are inhospitable for themselves (this is, of course, a metaphor).
After living in California with her mother for most of her life, 13-year old Libby (Elya Inbar) is...
- 5/9/2012
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- SoundOnSight
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