Hello Goodbye (2008)
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Cast
Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabai, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Manu Payet
A Parisian couple’s sudden move to Israel turns an idealistic new beginning into a struggle with housing and work.
The story
Gisèle and Alain Gaash, an assimilated Jewish couple in their fifties, decide to move from Paris to Israel at Gisèle’s request, astonishing their family and friends. Their move begins with euphoria, but practical setbacks soon challenge their ideal: a crooked real-estate agent swindles them, forcing them into modest accommodation. Alain, a renowned obstetrician-gynecologist, must earn a living washing cars at a large hotel while waiting for a very uncertain position at an Israeli hospital that an acquaintance had promised him. As the couple tries to establish themselves in a new country, these early difficulties put their expectations to the test.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Gisèle and Alain Gaash are a bourgeois Parisian couple in their fifties, assimilated Jews. At Gisèle’s request, and to the astonishment of their family and friends, they decide overnight to make aliyah to Israel. After the initial euphoric phase, serious problems begin to cloud their ideal: swindled by a crooked real estate agent, they are forced to live in modest accommodation, and Alain, a renowned obstetrician-gynecologist, has to earn a living washing cars for a large hotel while waiting for the very uncertain job at an Israeli hospital that an acquaintance had promised him. Gisèle, meanwhile, flourishes spiritually and seems little affected by their material setbacks, which are more than made up for by the love of the land and the sense of solidarity shown to them by the local people. The couple, who thought they had lost one another, have in fact found each other again in the land of Israel...
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