23.08.2013                      17.Elul.5773

Filmbesprechung:

The young and the clueless in ‘Youth’

Tom Shoval’s new drama is torture for the victim and torture for the audience.

Economic injustice and alienation among young people are growing problems in Israel, problems that Tom Shoval’s film Youth attempts to dramatize by showing a teenage girl being kidnapped, bound, gagged, beaten and denied bathroom privileges. The brothers who abduct her are so stupid that they don’t realize that her family observes Shabbat and won’t answer the phone calls they make to demand ransom money….