Elisheva

This is a film where age and certain types of life experience will likely help. The stats page shows higher ratings from the older age groups. If you're young and didn't get on with it, maybe come back to it again later in life, it may hit differently then.

It's not a romance, or a gay romance. The main character is gay, his friend and traveling companion takes his shirt off a lot. You can read tension or not. But it's primarily a film about coming to terms with complicated fathers.

It's not sentimental but it is full of emotion and there's a touch of melodrama in the music at times. It's like life, the narrative isn't always linear. I liked that, and how it conveyed the fragmentary nature of memories, how they arise and fade away, fitting themselves around whatever is going on in the present.

The travel part of the film feels very local in the beginning, and I feel like there must have been significances I don't have enough background knowledge to get all of. But the film is beautifully shot and so much of the countryside is gorgeous. Along the way they meet some lovely people too.

This won't be for everyone, but if you're open to following where it takes you, it's so good.