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Three Days and a Child (1967)

Three Days and a Child poster
Original title
Shlosha Yamim Veyeled
Directed by
Uri Zohar
Genre
drama film
Country
Israel
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man takes care of his ex-lover's young son for three days. The time together brings up old feelings and unresolved tensions.

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What happens

Three Days and a Child (Hebrew: שלושה ימים וילד, translit. Shlosha Yamim Veyeled) is a 1967 Israeli New Sensibility drama film directed and co-written by Uri Zohar. It is a modernist adaptation of a short story of the same name by A. B. Yehoshua and draws on the techniques and sensibilities of French New Wave cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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