Moom

When they lose their adult son to cancer, Vicky and Eyal take different paths after the week-long grieving period of shiva ends. Vicky wants to return to normal life as soon as possible: head back to teach her classes, deal with the kittens found in the backyard, and clear the kitchen of unwanted cucumber salads. Meanwhile, Eyal finds a use for his late son’s leftover medicinal marijuana, enlisting the neighbor’s stoner son Zooler to teach him how to roll joints. Israeli-American filmmaker Asaph Polonsky’s auspicious debut is a quirky, loose-limbed movie, offering cogent and funny insights into what mourning means for different people in a surprisingly light and sentimental meditation on the ways we cope with death.

When they lose their adult son to cancer, Vicky and Eyal take different paths after the week-long grieving period of shiva ends. Vicky wants to return to normal life as soon as possible: head back to teach her classes, deal with the kittens found in the backyard, and clear the kitchen of unwanted cucumber salads. Meanwhile, Eyal finds a use for his late son’s leftover medicinal marijuana, enlisting the neighbor’s stoner son Zooler to teach him how to roll joints. Israeli-American filmmaker Asaph Polonsky’s auspicious debut is a quirky, loose-limbed movie, offering cogent and funny insights into what mourning means for different people in a surprisingly light and sentimental meditation on the ways we cope with death.