This has been running at several Jewish Film Festivals. Although it is based on a book, the story of the movie was so terrible I can't imagine what the book was like. It mainly revolves around a Russian couple who are poor and have low paying jobs, and an Israeli couple, a therapist and her husband, whose marriage clearly is troubled. The husband is also an artist, and the Russian woman (Emma) winds up posing for him without telling her husband. The Russian man winds up working for the artist and he and Emma are invited to dinner with the Israeli couple. Wouldn't you know, the Israeili couple has a friend who has a thing for the Therapist. The dinner is the confrontation between all five of these people. This is overbaked Ingmar Bergman which ultimately is an ugly 78 minutes with no redeeming value. I'll spare you the most cruel thing that happens in the movie, but I will say it has to do with the Russian couple's bird. I will also say that the audience yelled out 'no' when what happens to the bird took place. There are so few times that I think that I am sorry to see a movie, but this is one of them.
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Two stories, one stronger than the other
Nozz24 March 2023
In Israel, Keren Peles is a famous figure from the music world, and she figures as a selling point for this movie but it's her first and she isn't tackling a very challenging role. She's in one of a pair of stories that, as an audience, we realize that inevitably we'll find woven together, and the big flaw in the movie is that the collision of the stories is too wild a coincidence.
The story Keren Peles belongs to is the less interesting of the two, featuring a love triangle among the well-to-do. "Rich people's problems," as we say in Hebrew. The other story is more compelling; it has to do with the struggles of a Russian immigrant couple whose life in Israel has not been easy. They encounter challenges to their pride, and they face up to them in a way that wins the audience over. Some of us might have been happier with a story only about the Russian couple. But both stories do hold our attention till the end.
The story Keren Peles belongs to is the less interesting of the two, featuring a love triangle among the well-to-do. "Rich people's problems," as we say in Hebrew. The other story is more compelling; it has to do with the struggles of a Russian immigrant couple whose life in Israel has not been easy. They encounter challenges to their pride, and they face up to them in a way that wins the audience over. Some of us might have been happier with a story only about the Russian couple. But both stories do hold our attention till the end.
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