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A Woman's Case
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Wikipedia article
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| name = A Woman's Case
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| image = A Woman's Case.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = Jacques Katmor
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| music =
| starring =
| cinematography = Amnon Salomon
| editing = Nellie Gilad
| studio = Lamut Le'at Ltd.
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| runtime = 82 Minutes
| country = Israel
| language = Hebrew
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'A Woman's Case' (, tr. 'Mikreh Isha') is a 1969 black and white Israeli independent underground experimental dramatic art film, the first Israeli film to be screened at the Venice Film Festival, directed by Jacques Katmor, and, usually, categorized as belonging to the bohemian/counterculture and anarchistic movement. The film was released on DVD by NMC Music. Cinematographer and coscreenwriter Amnon Salomon stated, during an interview, held late in life, that the film's origin is in Katmor's early exhibition, dealing with the female body, and, that no commercial motivations were held by the filmmakers.
Synopsis
This modernist and non-linear film, influenced by the French New Wave, and, especially, by films such as 'Jules and Jim' and 'Breathless', tells the story of an advertiser (Yossi Spector), in his forties, who, meets Helit , a model, in her twenties, and, together, the two spend a day in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, The model leads the advertiser into cafs and drug-fueled orgies, while, he leads her into the workshops of sculptors, so, that they could create sculptures, modeled on her body, out of gypsum. While she tries to liberate his mind, he attempts to stay where he is. The film ends with the advertiser strangling Helit to death, during a sadomasochistic session.
Reception
'Maariv' compared the film to the works of James Joyce, Jean-Luc Godard, and, Michelangelo Antonioni, with the acting of being compared to that of Monica Vitti, writer Yoram Kaniuk wrote that the film is a critique of the horrors of the modern world, and, 'Davar' compared the film to painting. The film, however, was a commercial failure, with only 38,000 tickets sold, due to its highly avant-garde nature. University of Haifa sociologist, Prof. Dr. , wrote that film's main theme is the independent woman's, unsuccessful, attempt to free the man, from the shackles of his masculinity, and, noted that it was one of the first Israeli films to express their director's personal view.
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