Nestled deep in director Tali Yankelevich’s documentary “My Darling Supermarket,” there’s a stirring scene of an employee grinding day-old bread into fine crumbs, just after a long segment with multiple workers debating their beliefs on the afterlife. The delicate dust resembles ashes and marks the end of another shift at a branch of the Brazilian grocery store chain Veran. In this existentialist delight, whimsical and profound, the mundane gains new enlightenment.
First, Yankelevich invokes the “Book of Genesis” and its story of creation via a vacant space with empty shelves that slowly takes the shape of a marketplace illuminated by fluorescents lights