Scaffolding

Name: Scaffolding
Genre: Drama
Released: September 28, 2018
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Ami Smolartchik, Asher Lax, Keren Berger, Naama Manor, Yaacov Cohen

2018

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Breaking Glass Pictures | Release Date: September 28, 2018

Starring: Ami Smolartchik, Asher Lax, Keren Berger, Naama Manor, Yaacov Cohen

Summary: 17-year- old Asher has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural17-year- old Asher has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.… Expand

Director: Matan Yair

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 90 min

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Robert Abele

Oct 4, 2018

Reminiscent of the naturalistic social dramas made by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Scaffolding combines the nervous tension of a thriller about a bomb waiting to go off — Lax’s volatility is as nail-biting as his bursts of compassion are relief-inducing — and the mournful clarity of a fly-on-the-wall documentary about troubled students. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Sep 26, 2018

[A] gripping, realist drama. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Sep 26, 2018

Israeli teacher-turned-filmmaker Matan Yair mines his own experiences for Scaffolding, bringing depth and poignancy to what could have otherwise been a familiar tale. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Sep 26, 2018

Like the structures it is named after, the movie hinges on a rudimentary narrative that builds in momentum as the plot progresses, leading to a single act of defiance in the final reel. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 27, 2018

Rife with heavy-handed metaphors — and discussions of metaphors, as befits a movie about a young man studying literature — Scaffolding seems somewhat torn when it comes to telegraphing its own intentions. Its ambiguities of character take a back seat to a trite upshot. Read full review

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