Review: Broken Wings (**)

BROKEN WINGS
A film review by Steve Rhodes

Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes

RATING (0 TO ****): **


In Nir Bergman's BROKEN WINGS (KNAFAYIM SHVUROT), Dafna Ulman (Orly
Silbersatz Banai) is a hard working midwife who is raising four children on
her own after the death of her husband nine months ago. The circumstances
of the death are barely mentioned, but it's something that's still affecting
the family even if they rarely talk about it.



The relatively inconsequential and languid movie merely marks time until a
predictable tragedy occurs in the middle. It's easily guessed resolution
comes at the end. Although Banai's performance is okay, the actors (Eliana
Magon, Daniel Magon, Maya Maron and Nitai Gaviratz) who play the key roles
of Dafna's children, ranging in ages from about six to twenty-two, are quite
weak and don't show any emotional attachment to the material until the
conclusion.



With not much happening in any of the story -- Dafna considers a video
dating service while her kids experience the typical relationship problems
of their respective ages -- one's mind naturally wanders. I got to thinking
about subtitles. Why release a film without at least demanding that the
person preparing the subtitles run a spell checker on them to catch the
obvious errors?



BROKEN WINGS runs 1:27. The film is in Hebrew with English subtitles. It
is rated R for "some language, brief nudity and drug use" and would be
acceptable for teenagers.



The film opens nationwide in the United States on Friday, April 30, 2004.
In the Silicon Valley, it will be showing at the Camera Cinemas.



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