Restless
After scraping by in New York for many years, Moshe is finally starting to gain recognition as a poet who recites his texts in a Manhattan bar. The sudden confrontation with his son, whom he abandoned 21 years ago in his native Israel, forces him to re-examine his life and face up to the sins of his past…
Moshe Amar left Israel for New York some twenty-odd years ago, and never looked back. What he would have seen was the woman he left behind with their little boy, Tzach. But in addition to being a big-hearted ladies´ man, Moshe is an artist who loves his freedom, and broken hearts are part of the bargain. New York hasn´t been very kind to him yet, but the tide is turning. He reads his poetry in a bar that caters to New York´s large Israeli community: biting, sarcastic, tender odes of love and hate to Israel and its people, and to the tough and resilient expats. And there´s another positive development: Yolanda, the bar´s sassy, tough-talking bartender, whom he falls in love with and who gives him warmth and affection. Then his son shows up. Tzach, discharged from the Israeli army. A young man he doesn´t know and who doesn´t know him. A son full of anger towards a father full of guilt. Two strangers on a collision course with one another. Two human beings who somehow belong together, but have to start from scratch. Two restless individuals who might finally find peace and more...
A raw yet tender film about a father and his son, and about the elusive quest for redemption, directed by renowned, award-winning Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek (Fast Food, Fast Women, trilogy Sue, Fiona and Bridget, Nowhere to Go but Up).
Director Amos Kollek :
This film is about a father-son relationship - 2 Israeli generations - and the changing times
and values in Israel and the Western world in the past few decades. Moshe had been raised
in the period right after the creation of the State when the existence of Israel was very
precarious. Tzach, on the other hand, belongs to the confused young generation of today,
growing up in a quickly changing world with no firm guidelines, no role models, no father
figures. This project, undoubtably, emerged at this point in time, because after having lived in
New York for 5 years, I got restless now, too, moving back to Israel.
|Amos Kollek|