Noodle
Ayelet Menahemi, 2007, 95 min, Hebrew, English, Drama
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"A moving and fulfilling experience... a wonderful melodrama... great acting... a scriptwriting achievement..."
Yediot Tel-Aviv
"Both moving and funny at the same time . An exceptionally talented director.... a sensitive, flowing script… "
Walla
"Humane, amusing, captivating and heart-warming... a winning array of realistic characters..."
Ma'ariv NRG
"Optimistic and heart-breaking… A stunning performance of Mili Avital… "
Tel-Aviv City Mouse
"The #1 Israeli movie of the year. Highly recommended. Charming, humane, heart-warming, moving."
Channel 1, IBA
"Mili Avital's richest, most mature role to date, and she is great... a sense of genuineness emerging from each and every scene."
Yael Shuv
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Special Grand Prix of the Jury
Montreal World Film Festival, 2007
Best Supporting Actress – Anat Waxman
The Israeli Academy Awards, 2007
10 nominations including Best Picture, Director & Script
The Israeli Academy Awards, 2007
SYNOPSIS
“Noodle” is a moving romantic action-comedy, revolving around the coming to life of Miri, urged by a sudden encounter with a Chinese boy abandoned by his mother.
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings — as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing — accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
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Behind the scenes
DIRECTOR
Cast
- Mili Avital – Miri Calderone
- Anat Waxman – Gila Sason
- Baoqi Chen – Noodle
- Alon Aboutboul – Izzy Sason
- Iftach Klein – Mati Gueta
- Sarit Vino-Elad – Dafna
Crew
- Ayelet Menahemi – Director
- Assaf Amir, Yoav Roeh – Producers
- Ayelet Menahemi, Shemi Zarhin – Scriptwriter
- Itzik Portal – Director of Photography
- Einat Glaser-Zarhin – Editor
- Ido Dolev – Art Director
- Haim Frank Ilfman – Original Score
- Keren Ron – Costume Design
- Ashi Milo – Sound Recording
- Aviv Aldema – Sound Design
- Ruti Gazit-Argov – Casting
- Orly Ronen – Makeup Artist
- Avi Satat – 1st Assistant Director
- Eitan Mansuri – Line Producer
- Itay Ben-Ezra – Stills