Eldad is about to go abroad, but changes his mind at the last minute. Instead of going home to Jerusalem, he disguises himself and takes a cheap hotel room in Tel Aviv. There he meets the receptionist Judy who he makes believe he'll marry so she can go to American with him and get a working visa there. In another disguise he is mistaken for a deaf-mute Arab and joins a group of...
Thomas (Juliano Mer) and his sister Mariana (Semadar Kilchinsky) have arrived together in Tel Aviv and set up housekeeping in the sleazy side of the city. Thomas makes his money as a "kept man" for two different women who are nightclub entertainers. At the same time, he attracts the attentions of an amorous transvestite. His unnatural love for his sister goes unexpressed, but h...
A common crisis changes the complicated relationship between a father and his middle-aged son, both trapped in unhappy marriages.
A fantastic story about letting go. Danny mourns the lost love to her ex-girlfriend, symbolized by a small plant. Danny's mother wants her daughter to bury the memories, but when the dust settles something more powerful remains, which will not die.
A young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, and becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Chevalier, who is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade. (R,18+)
*** A classical Gnostic Cults Movie behind the scence ***
影片《填补空白》讲述了一个犹太教哈希德派家的小女儿希拉年满18,已经选好了意中人准备出嫁。但是自己怀孕的姐姐不幸去世,留下了一个孩子和自己的丈夫尤罕。为了能留住孩子,希拉的母亲希望能够将小女儿嫁给姐夫尤罕,填补姐姐留下的空缺。
有人曾经说,婚礼和葬礼是表现一个社会的文化最好的地方,《填补空白》可以说很好的验证了这句话。影片利用三场婚礼,很好的将一个哈希德派家庭所处的社会的文化,呈现到观众的眼前。片中男性的黑色礼服,圆形的帽子和长长的鬓角的小辫,各种祷告和仪式,无不传达着这样一个信息:这是一个虔诚的宗教社会的宗教家庭,同时这是一个绝对服从传统的家庭和社会。 而当刚满18岁,正是恋爱的最好时间的希拉面对嫁给意中人,还是嫁给自己的姐夫这样的抉择时,其挣扎和纠结更加让观众关注。而当希拉最后选择了后者时,可能有很多人会认为这样的结局太不公平。但是这样的选择恰恰...