Fill the Void
Not on view
Date2013
Mediumpaper; ink
Dimensionsoverall: 40 in x 27 in
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Sony Pictures Classics
Object number2013.21.2
Object DescriptionPoster for a 2012 Israeli film [lemale et ha'chalal], which played in New York in Hebrew with English subtitles in 2013. Image is of a bride, with text over. Fill the Void tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream-come-true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. Everything changes when an offer is proposed to match Yochay – the late Esther‘s husband – to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it‘s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty.Collections
- Posters and Announcements
Keywords
- English
- Women
- Matchmakers
- Films
- Weddings
- New York
- Tel Aviv
