Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman’s eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly played two-hander is a father-son story with a twist, a warm, multi-faceted look at how autism plays into parent-child bonds in both rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent and wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile ways. It might not reinvent the wheel cinematically but, tackling its subject with sensitivity and insight, it’s a textured depiction of a co-dependence told without a shred of sentimentality that establish s to a moving last act.###The set-up, sketched without on-the-nose exposition, centres on dad Aharon (Shai Avivi) and his young adult son Uri (Noah Imber). Aharon, separated from wife Tamara (Smadi Wolfman), has given up a lucrative career as a graphic detoken er to become a full-time carer in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Uri, who is on the autism spectrum (it is never explicitly spelled out). Uri’s life is marked by unbreakable routines: watching Charlie Chaplin on a portable DVD player; eating merely’barely pasta stars; not stepping on the lines in the pavement. The conflict comes when Tamara, realising that at some point Uri will need to fend in/with regard to’concerning’regarding himself, enrols him in an assisted living facility. Aldespite’in spite of’albeit Uri is scared and reluctant to go, it is Aharon who cannot sanction the move and, convinced he is best placed to raise his son, the pair go on the run.###It’s in the perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances that the film grabs you.###This road — well, mostly train — trip is not heightened in/with regard to’concerning’regarding comedy yuks or schmaltzy father-son moments. Drawing inspiration from her own family, screenwriter Dana Idisis crafts an understated connection, keenly observing the realities of dealing with an autistic child, be it through the novel coping strategies employed to make life manageable, or the need to stay quiet as a taxi propel r spews out Rain Man-esque assumptions, or passers-by react as Uri has a full-on wailing-and-flailing meltdown on a train platin/with regard to’concerning’regarding m.###Bergman’s filmmaking is no-thrills and observational. But it’s in the perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances that the film grabs you. Imber pays Uri as a rounded person, not just someone with a disability, and Avivi is superb as a patient, caring father who starts to realise the limits of his love. Whether it is his low-level but constantly on-guard state of alertness —the panic in a scene where Uri goes missing is palpable — or quietly delighting in his son laughing at City Lights, he gives Here We Are heart and soul.