(PCM) Tayla Lavie’s Israeli drama-comedy follows different women as they navigate their careers and lives in the Military; Zero Motivation opens in the U.S. in New York City on December 3rd.
Winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Zero Motivation is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost.
Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie’s brilliant debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do.
Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv.
The indolent twosome are watched over by their aspiring senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who dreams of a higher position and a significant military career, but with a platoon of unskilled, idle, female soldiers without any drive under her charge, her ambitions for promotion are constantly thwarted.
With shifts of tone that go from slapstick to satiric to horrifying with fluid ease, and with a superb supporting cast of characters, Zero Motivation is destined to be one of the most talked about films of the year.
Zero Motivation will open at Film Forum in New York on December 3, 2014 with a national release to follow.
Winner of Best Director Award and Best Screenplay Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Zero Motivation is written and directed by Tayla Lavie, director of the short films The substitute and Sliding Flora, and stars Dana Ivgy (Or, Jaffa), Nelly Tagar (Tied Hands, Foreign Sister), and Shani Klein.
Zero Motivation currently has a fresh rating of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, but it is too early for a critic consensus.
Watch the trailer for Zero Motivation below and visit the official website for more info!
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