Five years after her debut film, "People Who Are Not Me," the talented creator Hadas Ben Aroya returned to us with "Someone Will Love Someone" - a talkative Tel Aviv drama about a handful of characters (mostly young) poking around a hot shoulder to rest their heads on.
Although you will not find great innovations here, the result is accurate, authentic and full of worthy moments.
The film is made up of three episodes.
In the first, a girl named Danny (Hadar Katz) walks around the party looking for Max (Lev Leib Levin), the smug guy who got her pregnant.
The second episode focuses on Max and his new partner, Avishag (Elisheva Weil), while the two hang out, lie down and try to deepen their acquaintance.
In the episode that ends the film (and brings it to its beautiful climax) Avishag emerges for a moment from her slot and makes a surprising connection with an established and older man (Yoav Hait).
Aside from the film's frenetic opening scene, "Someone Will Love Someone" is made up almost entirely of long conversations between two characters who are together in a room.
However, the dynamic script continues to generate interest, showcasing the complexity and character of the characters' contradictions, and Ben Aroya proves time and time again that she has no problem making the conversation roll naturally and convincingly for long minutes.
Between monologues you will also find here two long and graphic sex scenes, which add additional layers to the emotional and human mix of the piece.
Although there is something very local, contemporary and "Tel Avivian" in what is brewed on screen, Ben Aroya also seems to draw some inspiration from the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Harmony Corinne and Larry Clark (and especially from the movie "Kids").
All the actors that Ben Aroya has recruited for her film are doing a good job.
Hadar Katz, who appears on screen for only a few minutes, leaves a deep imprint nonetheless, and Levin and Hait perform their work with considerable skill and courage.
Meanwhile, there is no doubt that Elisheva Weil, who reveals much more here than just her body, is the one who carries this not always simple film on her shoulders.
Her impressive performance makes use of a wide range of empathetic (and sometimes uncomfortable) emotional states, loads the film with humanity, and causes him (and his great theme song, "It's Been A Long Time", performed by Matti Caspi) to continue to resonate in his head even after it ends.
"Someone will love someone" is not for everyone.
But this someone loved.
Score: 8
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