SummaryShaul (Ori Pfeffer) is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa one day for a reckoning with the father he has not seen in 5 years. But getting along with an hippie mother in-law with a penchant for New Age, a daughter on the verge of adolescence, and a father who's been converted to yoga is not ... Read More
Directed By:Raphaël Nadjari
Written By:Raphaël Nadjari, Geoffroy Grison
A Strange Course of Events
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Feb 26, 2016
30
Mr. Nadjari, who wrote the screenplay with Geoffroy Grison, may have been intending a minimalist character study, but even so, he has abdicated his responsibility: Too much of this family drama is left to the audience to fill in.
Feb 24, 2016
30
Too often the pic feels as if it’s killing time to pad itself out into feature length.
Feb 24, 2016
30
A film about ordinary people doing nothing is a tricky thing, quickly numbing the audience to sleep unless the screenplay is electrifying and the actors greatly appealing. Unfortunately, neither of these is true of Rafael Nadjari’s A Strange Course of Events, which is anything but strange and eventful.
Feb 24, 2016
30
Its emotions prove curiously inconsistent, hinting at darkness but never committing fully.
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Production Company:
- Avenue B Productions
- Transfax Film Productions
- Laila Films
- Vito Films
Release Date:Feb 26, 2016
Duration:1 h 38 m
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
