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Aya: Imagined Autobiography
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
|name=Aya: Imagined Autobiography
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|image=Aya imagined autobiography poster.jpg
|caption=Theatrical release poster
|director=Michal Bat-Adam
|writer=Michal Bat-Adam
|producer=
|music=Amos Hadani
|starring=
|cinematography=Yoav Kosh
|editing=Boaz Leon
|studio=
|distributor=National Center for Jewish Film
|released=
|runtime=87 Minutes
|country=Israel
|language=Hebrew
|budget=$ 650,000}}
'Aya: Imagined Autobiography' (, tr. 'Aya: Autobiographia Dimionit') is a 1994 Israeli independent underground dramatic art film directed by Michal Bat-Adam. The titular character is the same one from the director's earlier film 'Boy Meets Girl', now haunted by her past.
Synopsis
Aya (Michal Bat-Adam, played by as a teenager, by Shira Lew-Munk as a child, and, inside the fictional film, by Keren Tenenbaum), a thirtysomething film director, married and mother of one, is shooting a film about her life. The film presents the story of the filming of this fictional film while intersecting within it her dreams and delusions from her life and relations with her father , played inside the fictional film by ) and her mentally ill mother (, played inside the fictional film by Levana Finkelstein). Aya sees her life as a striving to exist, namely, to do something important in life, both in her eyes and in her father's. However, while making this film, Aya understands that all of this striving for something large is pointless, and, that what really matters is the ability to experience every moment of life, finding meaning therein.
Reception
Writing in 'Haaretz', critic opined that the film is director Michal Bat-Adam's best one so far, while 'Ha'ir' critic Dr. wrote that it was her most personal as well as her most interesting one to date. 'Time Out Tel Aviv' critic noted that watching this film "is like meeting for the first time someone who insists on telling you about a very intimate dream he had had, while exposing you to his unedited and private world of fantasies and associations." Abroad, 'Variety' stated that, in this film, the "clash between film and reality is really the core of the movie, with scenes from the autobiographical film clashing with scenes from Ayas memory. Sometimes the memory is harsher and sometimes the film is, as if Bat-Adam doesnt trust either as a source of truth."
References
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