A Nightmare Inside a Utopian Dream

Published May 30, 2007

After officially opening with a film about astronauts and outer space, the Israeli film festival returns to terra firma with the film Sweet Mud, an elusive title for a melancholic film set on a kibbutz in 1974.

Twelve-year-old Dvir is preparing for his bar mitzvah year, but is having trouble concentrating on his studies by having to look after his emotionally unstable widowed mother, Miri. Clearly...