(16:9 HD PAL/88 minutes/B&W/2012)
NEW YORK TIMES‘ CRITICS’ PICK + ONE OF THE YEAR’S TOP FILMS- SIGHT & SOUND + WINNER-BEST DRAMA in ISRAELI CINEMA-Jerusalem International Film Fest. Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Menkes’s “Dissolution” combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal B&W realism to explore the condition of deep violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by DIDI FIRE.