Three Days and a Child

Three Days and a Child Hebrew , translit.Shlosha Yamim Veyeled is a 1967 Israeli drama film directed by Uri Zohar. It is a modernist adaptation of a short story by the same name by A. B. Yehoshua and draws on the techniques and sensibilities of French New Wave cinema.

According to one student of Israeli film, Three Days and a Child ostensibly . . .sets up a dichotomy between Elis alienated life in Jerusalem and the kibbutz idyll. His life in the city is characterized by loneliness, despair, estrangement from his lover and a miseenscne that stresses desolation, graves and thorns. In the heros consciousness, his kibbutz past is a memory of first love, flowering fields and flowing water. Yet . . . this perception of the protagonist is not so clear cut life in the kibbutz wasnt so harmonious, whereas his life in Jerusalem was not so terrible.Three Days and a Child was a great success, critically and commercially, selling some 308,000 tickets. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Film and Oded Kotler won the award for Best Actor. ........

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