
Lilly
Rivlin
Producer/director/writer
56 minutes,
2000
Israel Film Festival, 2001, nominated
for competition
Black Maria Film &
Video Festival, Director's Citation Award
Worldfest Houston, 2001, Gold Award
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Who of us knows our parents, asks the filmmaker at the
outset.
She documents her parents at the end of their lives as they lie next to each
other in adjoining
hospital beds, like two Beckett characters, immobilized by sickness.
Seeking to make sense of their marriage, she explores her father's contradictory personality, his relationship to his family and his love affairs.
In the end, her father is her mother's chief caretaker, keeping her alive and giving her the attention she
always wanted.
And the filmmaker, the oldest daughter, has a conversation with her father that she would never have had if not for
the mediation of the camera.

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