Tag: Oz Zehavi

REVIEW: לעבור את הקיר [Laavor et hakir] [The Wedding Plan] [2016]

Jared Mobarak

“It’s a small task for God to find me a groom by the end of Hanukkah” Michal (Noa Koler) doesn’t want to get married. What she truly wants is to no longer be alone. She’s sick of being the person invited to get-togethers rather than the one doing the inviting so she enlists any matchmaker she can find in Jerusalem to help her wish come true. And it works. She finds a man who proposes (Erez Drigues‘ Gidi) and they begin their journey towards a beautiful wedding at the banquet…

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REVIEW: Bordering on Bad Behavior [2015]

Jared Mobarak

“No. I don’t need a piss now.” You know that highly politicized stoner comedy about a Jew, Arab, and Christian locked together for six hours in an Israeli communications base on the Lebanese border you’ve been craving? Well, director Jac Mulder and writer Ziggy Darwish have delivered it with a punchline that pretty much writes itself. The film’s called Bordering on Bad Behavior and it’s a surprisingly introspective view on Middle East relations as well as the stubborn denial to admit wrongdoing by each side involved. Centering on an angry…

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