“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.... The Thin Line provides a compelling portrait of middle-class life in Israel, exploring by contrast the tranquility and wholesomeness of the kibbutz...with the lice-ridden mental hospital where (the) mother--played with chilling power by Gila Almagor, Israel's best known stage and screen actress--is sent for shock treatment. (It) finally raises the question, by implication, of whether or not Israel, as a chronically beleaguered state, provides unusually fertile ground for emotional disorder.” Jewish Film Festival