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“Longing” is a manifestation of how grief makes emotions overtake reason

Roger Ebert
  • Festival 40
  • Director: Savi Gabizon
  • Israel, Canada 2024
  • 111 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Carmel Competition – Opening Film

 

When Daniel Bloch (Richard Gere), a wealthy New York bachelor, gets a phone call from an ex-girlfriend and meets with her, he learns that she gave birth to his son twenty years ago and that the boy has recently died in a car accident. Forced to evaluate his life choices, Daniel flies to a small Canadian town to try and get learn a little about his son.

Longing, Savi Gabizon’s English-language remake of his own 2017 Israeli hit film, is a drama with comic moments about parenthood, about the wish to become a parent and all it involves.

Filmography: Longing (2017), Nina's Tragedies (2003), Love Sick (1995), Shuroo (1990).

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  • Director Savi Gabizon
  • Production Daniel Berkerman, Alexander Vinnitski, Neil Mathieson
  • Script Savi Gabizon
  • Cinematography Paul Sarossy
  • Editing Tali Helter Shenkar
  • Music Owen Pallett
  • Actors Richard Gere, Diane Kruger, Suzanne Clément
  • Source United King Films

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