Thanks Ronit Elkabetz! Tribute to an actress with an edge

A few days ago he passed away prematurely known actress and Israeli director of Moroccan origin, poised between domestic and French cinema film Ronit Elkabetz. We want to remember it for what life has given us her: the cinema. In his short career he has won three Ophir Awards and received seven nominations to the prize. His Moroccan family was Jewish. The Moroccan immigrant parents moved to Israel where he was born Ronit that always was in search of their roots. Its foundations and its culture are pluralistic, but his life is linked to Israel. At twenty-six, without having done any acting school, participates in a specimen and obtains the main role in Hameyu'ad (1990). The first concrete results will come ten years later with Hatun Meuheret (late Marriage) and it was awarded Best Actress dall'Israeli Film Academy and the Buenos Aires International Independent Film of Cinema. With the film Or (My treasure) in Keren Jedaiah (2004) at the Bratislava International Film Festival won a Grand Prix and also a special mention by the FIPRESCI Jury Award and the Audience Award at Venice Film Festival, for his role And take a wife (2004) all’Hamburg Film Festival, which he is also the director and his brother Shlomi Elkabetz. Many other prizes will receive them Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (2007), Shiva (2008), The girl on the train(2009) with Deneuve, Ashes and Blood(2009, Fanny Ardant's directorial debut), Mabul (2010) and the last given(2014), which he is also the director and screenwriter. The latter film, that impresses the silent gaze of the protagonist and his stubbornness to be on par former husband before a religious court, narrates the process of Viviane Amsalem, a woman who for five years has tried to get a divorce from her husband. His most recent films she directed include more than just a Viviane (Gett Le procès de Viviane Amsalem) also Seven days or old grudges of a family. We like to remember then those interpreted as Invisible Michal Aviad, The Flood Yoni Guy di native, Turk’s HeAd di Pascal Elbe, Jaffa in Keren Jedaiah, Alila Amos Gitai narrating by the residents of an apartment building, The provisional life of Israel, e The band in Eran Kolirin. Film comedy, full value, Israel tells with humor, feeling and nostalgia. With this experienced actress is no doubt that leaves a void in Israeli and international cinema. hello Ronitz!

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