![]() ![]() ![]() In many ways, money - and the power it affords - is the root of the various family tensions. There’s the sister-in-law who was secretly in love with Maurice and, of course, the widow, barely visible for most of the film until she strolls in to kick an already explosive argument into the stratosphere. Meir (Albert Iluz), meanwhile, has one eye focused on his mayoral campaign, while Eliahu (Simon Abkarian) pines for the wife (Ronit Elkabetz, the café owner in “The Band’s Visit”) who left him. He’s worried about his brothers who’ve lived well on the fruits of the business, even if they weren’t co-owners but employees. Maurice is barely in the ground before fissures appear, with Haim (Moshe Ivgy) confiding to his wife that his factory is about to go bankrupt. It’s enough for us to deduce that the party-hearty, 50-something Maurice was the glue and the diplomat who bound his eight siblings in peaceful coexistence. Written and directed by the sister-brother tandem of Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz as the sequel to their 2004 film, “To Take a Wife,” “Shiva” doesn’t follow the usual path of dishing up revelations about the deceased. 28, of the Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival. “Shiva” screens as the late show on opening night, Feb. It might not be the most original metaphor for contemporary Israel and the seemingly intractable gulfs between hawks and doves and secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews, but it’s darned effective.
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