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Our review of My Kid: Journey to Therapy

2021-12-21T15:06:39.012Z


Refusing to see his autistic son leave for a center, a father embarks him on a journey along the Israeli coast. A poignant and surgical film on the quest for autonomy.


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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Source: lefigaro

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