Late Marriage
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Movie Reviews of Late Marriage
Movie Review: More Real Life than Movies
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a movie, but you feel like rather than a script, you are seeing real life. Not a hollywood film where love triumphs and you get what you expect where the Hero gets the gril. Nothing is black and white.. Everyone wins, everyone loses. You'll be thinking about this for days.Movie Review: Good Israeli comedy
Summary: 3 Stars
One might have thought that arranged marriages are a thing of the past among Israeli Jews. But according to this bittersweet comedy, the tradition is alive and well, at least among the conservative Georgian Jewish community in Israel the movie is set on (director Kashashivili belongs to that community). The protagonist of the movie is Zaza, an unmarried man in his early thirties and graduate student in philosophy (played by the fine actor Lior Ashkenazi, who starred as the brutal Mossad agent in another great Israeli movie, Walk on Water). His concerned family shows him young, attractive, and eligible girls, but he resists them all - since he already has a secret love affair with Judith, a sexually liberated mother and divorcée. Zaza knows his extended family would never accept Judith; but when they find out, the results are worse than you can imagine. Let just say, quoting one critic, that joining the Foreign Legion is probably preferable than living with such family. The ending is quite sad, but this is a remarkable film.Movie Review: not my cup of tea
Summary: 3 Stars
Something may have been lost in translation of this unfunny comedy. (Perhaps the Hebrew version is a hoot). I'm giving it 3 stars because it is of some cultural interest about the Georgian community.Movie Review: Sword to the Throat
Summary: 2 Stars
"Late Marriage" was a frustrating film for me to watch, at least the last half. I admit that it is probably true to its culture. My lack of enjoyment is based on our culture here in the USA; yet I found it impossible to separate. The first half is interesting with the family taking Zaza played by Lior Louie Ashkenazi to meet girls to marry. At 31, they are worried that he will remain a bachelor. Zaza is a graduate student in philosophy working on his doctorate. Other than a brief reference, his studies never seem to impact the film, other than to explain why @ 31 he still has his parents' credit card. Ronit Elkabetz plays the Moroccan immigrant Judith who is divorced. Zaza and she have a torrid relationship in a graphic bedroom scene. However, Judith does not want to introduce Zaza to her daughter Madonna. Zaza knows that his family would never accept Judith because she is divorced. Lili Kosashvili who is the real-life mother of director Dover Kosashvili plays the character Lili in the film. Her character is the real heavy in the film. She transforms a romantic comedy into a social tragedy as Zaza fails to stand up for the woman he loves. Moni Moshonov plays Zaza's father Yasha with appropriate amounts of vacillation. A similar history between the parents may explain what seems like an over-reaction by the parents. The scene where the parents break into Judith's apartment and hurl insults on her and even put a sword to her throat in front of her little daughter Madonna played by Sapir Kugman is unforgivable. I was enjoying this movie and came to truly hate it. The performances and direction work; but it is the story to which I was unable to relate. Taxi!Movie Review: Bummer of a Movie
Summary: 2 Stars
The first sentence on the back of the DVD case says, "In the tradition of such recent comedic hits as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Monsoon Wedding, comes this", etc.
WRONG! That opener is the reason I chose "Late Marriage", but boy is that ever misleading; who writes those little synopses, anyway? Is there no accountability?
Instead, this movie "treats" us to an unbelievably demanding and overbearing family, and the 31 year old son who tolerates their abuse. This family's behavior just stretched the limits of credulity WAY beyond acceptable boundaries. Yeah, I know it's just a movie, and one has to take these things with a grain of salt, but this one requires about ten oceans worth.
Oh, and that's not to mention the abrupt and inexplicable ending. A total letdown.
Let's see, I would recommend this movie to, hmmm; no one, sorry.