Life According To Agfa

The film is set in Tel Aviv, most of it in a bar called the Barbie. The name is not invented: it is the popular nickname for a well known mental health institution in Israel. The name of the bar is a hint about what goes on inside and about what befalls its owner. Daliah, who owns the place, along with the staff and the customers, is at the centre of the account. Each of them has a dead end of their own, and they pile up in the same room. The account runs along a streak of violence that keeps hardening. Where it ends is somewhere nobody expects. The film stays largely in that one place. Gila Almagor and Shuli Rand appear in Assi Dayan’s Israeli film of 1992.