Country: Thailand
Year: 2011
Duration: 88'
Tamar is thirty-five years old and lives on her own with her daughters in a small village in the Israeli countryside. A victim of her own sexual desires, she gives herself to many men in the village. Shai, a young veterinarian who has recently returned to live in the area, is immediately taken with her. A short time later, the two have begun a loving relationship which runs the risk of being ruined by Tamar’s difficulty in being satisfied by just one partner. “The film is not about sex or relationships, but the heredity of violence, depression, self-hatred and self-destruction. [...] Therefore, the question of freedom needs to be evoked. The film wishes to ask whether achieving freedom is a result of shedding social codes, such as the morality and the banality of the ‘family cell.’ Freedom probably exists in territories where the boundaries are faint and undefined – as the soil and the animals function in the film – where there is no distinctive line between the domesticated and the wild.”
Biography
film director
Hagar Ben Asher
Hagar Ben Asher (Israel, 1979) graduated with top grades from Minshar For Art in Tel Aviv; she began to make a name for herself abroad both as a director and as an actress with her graduating film, the short Pathways, which received the Cinefondation award in Cannes in 2007. The screenplay of The Slut was developed at the Atelier in Cannes, and the film was completed thanks to the contribution of the TorinoFilmLab. During the preparation of the film, she became famous as an actress in the TV series The Ran Quartet and the film Julia Mia by Yuval Granot, which received the award for best film at the 2007 Haifa Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mish’olim (Pathways, cm, 2007), Hanotenet (The Slut, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Hagar Ben Asher
fotografia/cinematography
Amit Yasour
montaggio/film editing
Asaf Korman
scenografia/production design
Ronen Nagel, Yisrael David
costumi/costume design
Li Alembik
suono/sound
Ronen Nagel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Hagar Ben Asher (Tamar), Ishai Golan (Shai), Icho Avital (Rami), Yoav Levi (Yair), Tzahi Hanan (Doron), Stav Yanai (Mika), Daria Forman (Noa)
produttori/producers
Marek Rozenbaum, Benny Drechse
produzione/production
Transfax Film, Rohfilm
vendita all’estero/world sales
Film Distribution
