MIA

If you like meditative and realistic stories, this one is for you! I found it quite engaging and relatable as we all have lost some dreams and had to take a new course in life. Galia Barkol has crafted a masterful story and plays the lead beautifully. This film is studio quality, very professionally done with outstanding performances from all the actors. Watch and like!

A leisurely, contemplative and sensitive study of a woman who is not sure of what she wants in her life, thinking back to what she had and what the future might be, meanwhile settling for something unfulfilling.

Running at a pensive pace, which gives the story time to breathe and land with its full weight, this lyrical and moving study of a woman trying to find her life's meaning and purpose has much resonance for today's audience. Your heart breaks for her when she makes her decision and you can see that she could have chosen better for herself. Definitely worth a look.

Don't Let the Night End is a beautiful and subtle film in the style of early Godard. On one level it's a slow burn romance but it is also a character study in loss and shifting goals. Subtle motifs are the broken phone, the missing cat, the rigidness of origami as Mia struggles to put her life back together and find meaning. The performances are very nuanced and naturalistic. The photography is lovely and music beautifully accompanies its protagonist's melancholy.

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.