“‘Bat-Adam is a director capable of creating and sustaining powerful and intricate characterizations. The Thin Line is an impressive effort and was easily one of the better films screened at the Chicago International Film Festival.' --Variety.
“Israeli writer-director Michal Bat-Adam's second film is a finely etched, carefully detailed look at a woman's descent into madness and the effect this has on her family. This emotional deterioration is witnessed by Nili, her 10-year-old daughter, who tries in vain to hold the family together while her mother's first signs of instability grow into fits of uncontrollable hysteria.
“The Thin Line provides a compelling portrait of middle-class life in Israel, explores by contrast the tranquility and wholesomeness of the kibbutz, where Nili is sent, with the lice-ridden mental hospital where her mother--played with chilling power by Gila Almagor, Israel's best known stage and screen actress--is sent for shock treatment, and finally raises the question, by implication, whether or not Israel, as a chronically beleaguered state, provides unusually fertile ground for emotional disorder.” --Jewish Film Festival