Hungarian film critic and theorist Yvette Biro has taught screenwriting and film studies at the Universities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, and currently teaches at New York University. Her most recent book is Profane Mythology: The Savage Mind of the Cinema.
“In this moving psychological portrait, a young man is torn between two ‘families'--the army unit that receives him with love, and his cool and ambivalent wife. Madness is the connection between family and army; the landscape of Israel itself is a disturbing backdrop in which the gates of Lebanon are made parallel to the gates of the madhouse. One of the best of the Israeli ‘new wave' films made to date.” Jewish Film Festival