SummaryOrna, (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 balance its ... Read More
Directed By:Michal Aviad
Written By:Michal Aviad, Sharon Azulay Eyal, Dana Shatz, Michal Vinik
Working Woman
Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
User score
Generally Favorable
6.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
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Apr 11, 2019
90
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.
Mar 25, 2019
88
Michal Aviad’s film forcefully brings home a reality that many of us have been aware of only intellectually.
Mar 28, 2019
80
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.
Mar 25, 2019
80
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.
May 13, 2019
75
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.
May 8, 2019
75
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.
Mar 26, 2019
70
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.
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Apr 13, 2019
8
“Working Woman” is an Israeli film depicting the frustration of a vulnerable member of the work force as she is victimized by the sexual harassment of her employer and how difficult it is for her (and for so many other women similarly situated) to cope with the awkwardness of the role in which she has been placed. Foreign by definition both in language and origin, the film is universal in its appeal for what befalls the heroine in this movie could occur anywhere in the world proving that “bad boys will be bad boys” regardless of the language they speak. I give the film an 8 rating with special acknowledgment to Michel Aviad who, as director and co-writer of the film, has captured the humanity and plight of its leading character.
Production Company:
- Lama Films
- United King Films
- Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project
- Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Art
- Barbara Dobkin
- YES
Release Date:Mar 29, 2019
Duration:1 h 33 m
Awards
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
