French-Israeli collaboration about a former prostitute and concentration camp prisoner who makes do in her dotage by babysitting for prostitutes' children, including one in particular, an Arab boy called "Momo," who is her special pet. This bit of dowdy humanism takes a chucklesome approach to Jewish-Moslem differences, but it is more centrally concerned with the problems of old age. Unlike the normal actress who tries to pass for ten years younger than she actually is, Simone Signoret tries to pass for ten years older, and she succeeds easily. Her performance as the huffing and puffing old whore repeatedly seems to comment on her real-life self, as though her frankness and lack of embarrassment are supposed to alleviate our sense of discomfort over her sadly bloated physique. Directed by Moshe Mizrahi. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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