the story heads exactly where you expect it to, but meaty performances sustain it, with American co-star JJ Feild putting up surprisingly strong resistance to veteran scene-stealer Brian Cox
it's a quiet film, full of pain, love, life, and death that highlights generational divides. Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun offer little camera movement, making for simple shots that show the characters' emotional complexity
even a charismatic turn from Brian Cox can’t save this amateurish cliché-ridden schmaltz; Co-directed by two Israelis, adapted from an Italian-set novel, it's 100 per cent inauthentic