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...Dor explains that she “had to make a film about this feminine family… I became a different mother after making the film. I can’t fight with [my kids] anymore. They just make me laugh...
...felt personally invested in portraying the anxiety of the Israeli mother. The vulnerability of life in a tumultuous society hit close to home for Ben-Dor, whose own son recently finished his mandatory service in the Israeli army. “I’m a peacenik, a ’60s refugee and I couldn’t believe that my son would become a soldier and go to the front,” she says...
...film was made right after her son finished his military term, and Ben-Dor explains, “I think the universality of the pain [in the film] is losing things that you love. You can lose it in such a traumatic way, as they did and you can lose it in a less dramatic way. That’s why people can relate to each other when they are in such a deep depression...
...Once Widowed” achieves an astonishing emotional proximity to the women’s grief. Ben-Dor claimed that the trusting relationship established early on between the filmmaker and her subjects arose from natural rapport. “When you really take interest in someone, he opens up. I was very passionately interested in their stories,” she says...
This personal approach to an international conflict reflects Ben-Dor’s confidence in the capacity for people to heal one another. As a society, Ben-Dor insists, “We just need time to change us all—Palestinians and Israelis. We treat our lives like they’re black and white but the truth is that life is so much more complicated, there is no good and bad, there aren’t winners and losers...