Galia Barkol is the director and screenwriter of the wonderfully aching "Don't Let The Night End." Appropriately, she also plays the film's female lead, and does so with the same deft nuance and sensitivity with which she's crafted its story. From its onset and throughout, this is a film that feels like it's coming from a deeply personal space, with a struggling main character that perhaps only Barkol was inherently qualified to take on and own at this heightened level of accomplishment.
"Don't Let The Night End" is truly ambitious in its design and almost monumental in both its grace and in its ultimately successful execution, as it reenforces what for many of us is our greatest fear becoming our starkest reality: Sometimes the dream we've dreamed for ourselves simply doesn't come true. There isn't a more jarringly honest, intimate, and intimidating theme available to any of our storytelling vehicles, yet it's a topic that's so few filmmakers are brave enough to ask their audiences to emotionally confront.
Fluidly shot and accompanied by an engrossing soundscape, "Don't Let The Night End" deals far more with routine in its pained search for life's next steps than it does with constantly changing events or alterations in pacing. Be prepared to feel a palpable sense of your own personal unrest, as what else - once the dream is dashed - could life possibly hold for us? This is a mesmerizing effort by its creator, and a haunting meditation on the sense of self we all must find a way to make peace with.
"Don't Let The Night End" is truly ambitious in its design and almost monumental in both its grace and in its ultimately successful execution, as it reenforces what for many of us is our greatest fear becoming our starkest reality: Sometimes the dream we've dreamed for ourselves simply doesn't come true. There isn't a more jarringly honest, intimate, and intimidating theme available to any of our storytelling vehicles, yet it's a topic that's so few filmmakers are brave enough to ask their audiences to emotionally confront.
Fluidly shot and accompanied by an engrossing soundscape, "Don't Let The Night End" deals far more with routine in its pained search for life's next steps than it does with constantly changing events or alterations in pacing. Be prepared to feel a palpable sense of your own personal unrest, as what else - once the dream is dashed - could life possibly hold for us? This is a mesmerizing effort by its creator, and a haunting meditation on the sense of self we all must find a way to make peace with.