Come Closer

In the opening sequence of “Come Closer,” the feature debut of Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher, teenage Nati (Ido Tako) is abducted off the street in front of his house. A bag is put over his head, and he is hustled, screaming and protesting, into the back of a van, but the people who abduct him are just kids, and in fact, many of them are laughing as they kidnap him. He’s taken to the beach, where he finally realizes this is an elaborate prank engineered by his older sister, Eden (Lia Elalouf), a wild, domineering, charismatic girl, to “celebrate” his birthday. The party that follows is a rager, and everyone passes out on the beach. Still drunk, Nati wanders off towards the road, where he is hit and killed by a passing vehicle.