Synopsis: When his 11 year old daughter enters a spelling competition, Saul becomes more and more focused on her. Meanwhile, his wife and elder son become more and more detached.
Appraisal: There is a skeleton of reason in this film, which is surrounded by annoying elements that definitely spoiled it for me. Thus, there is one character that has psychic powers, there is another character who has a completely implausible mental illness which is disclosed for the viewer only near the ending, and there is also a professor that believes in the magical powers of the cabala. All that is very phony, in my opinion. The reasonable part has to do with a family falling apart because of reasons very hard to put one's finger at, but having to do apparently with the domineering personality of the father. It is not well developed precisely because almost all the time of the movie is wasted, as I said, with mystical or supernatural garbage. Also, I confess there were some sequences with a toppled car whose meaning I couldn't figure out.
Rating: 37
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