For two decades, Israeli series have shown creativity with visual asceticism and a bewildering economy of means by capturing reality to the bone without the slightest artifice of staging.
The result of the collaboration between director Nir Bergman, co-writer of the adulated
In therapy
,
by Hagai Levi, and Dana Idisis, co-creator of the comedy
On the Spectrum,
awarded at Séries Mania and acquired by Salto, the
My Kid
road-trip
obeys to the same requirements and to the same bare aesthetic.
And offers a fair and necessary portrait of parental love and the quest for autonomy of young people with disabilities.
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