Israeli movie,2007, subtitled.

I've seen a lot of good foreign films lately and this is another one.
Abraham, an aging Hassidic rabbi and his wife Esther feel blessed by God when a son, Menachem is born to them. They delight in the boy and love him deeply. The boy's mother never lets him out of her sight because the child is so precious to her.

One day the rabbi and his wife takes the boy to the Dead Sea for a day at the beach. The men gather on a separate beach from the women. Mid afternon prayers are called for, but the boy lags behind, wanting to put some minnows he has caught in a bag into the sea. While the rabbi and the other men are in ritual prayer, the boy drowns in the sea.

The rabbi, in his grief is torn between religious devotion--that the death was an act of God--and fatherly love--and tries to cope with his sorrow with prayer and unceasing faith. Esther blames her husband for what happened, saying "I never let him out of my sight."

But she says very little, and is inconsolable. The expressions on her face say it all--it's what good acting is all about; her face tells everything, and as she spurns her husband's prayers, you can feel her bitterness.
You could say this is a simple, multi layered story, that without a lot of words says a lot.

susil