Molly Tobin addressed the crowd
More than 80 people came out on a foggy night to view and discuss the Israeli film “Zero Motivation“ Saturday. The award-winning film was written and directed by Israeli-born Talya Lavie.
The movie is divided into three different stories about a unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base. It is a zany, dark, and comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers. The Human Resources Office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters who bide their time pushing paper and battling in computer games, counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment, friendship, love, and country are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
After the film, viewers gathered in the social hall for a dessert reception and comments about the film from the event’s moderator, Molly Tobin, cultural affairs officer at the Israeli Embassy. Several attendees compared the comedic portrayal with MASH, McHale’s Navy, and Private Benjamin, American comedies about military life.
New this year was a meze menu offered by Tikvat Israel’s kitchen to hungry filmgoers before the movie. Included on the menu were grape leaves, hummus, tzatziki, baba ganoush, feta cheese, and pita.
The next film — “Baba Joon” — will be shown Jan. 28, at 7:45 pm. A tender tale of generational divide and immigrant experience, “Baba Joon” is set in a Persian-immigrant moshav in the Negev in the 1980s. It won 5 Israel Academy Awards, including Best Film, and was Israel’s 2015 Foreign Language Oscar submission. The film is mostly in Farsi (with English subtitles) and is 91 minutes long.The meze offerings will again be available before next week’s film.
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