Late Marriage (Sub)
by Dover Koshashvili
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Actor: Aya Steinovitz, Lili Koshashvili, Lior Ashkenazi, Moni Moshonov, Ronit ElkabetzDirector: Dover Koshashvili
Cinematographer: Daniel Schneor
Writer: Dover Koshashvili
Editor: Yael Perlov
Producer: Edgard Tenenbaum
Producer: Marek Rozenbaum
Producer: Uddie Yerushalmi
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Georgian (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 2003-02-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Studio: New Yorker Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Late Marriage (Sub)
Movie Review: Hypocrites and a Mama' Boy
Summary: 1 Stars
Apparently, the other reviewers saw a different film, because the one I watched was awful. The only remotely likeable character in the whole movie was the little girl. I've never been to Israel, so I can't comment on what life is like there, but I really don't believe that the losers in this film portray the typical Israeli. Basically, the film is about hypocritical old men, stupid women, and the biggest Mama's Boy of all time. 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: A different look on love and marriage
Summary: 4 Stars
This film should be mandatory for watching by any student of anthropology, or women studies. Although it is made in Israel, it is unique to certain parts of the world where partiarchal society is still having stronghold. Main character, a single man of 31 is being forced by his parents to find a wife and marry. What they do not know is that he has an affair with a woman who is: a) older than him, b) she is divorced and c) has a child from previous relationship. Can this tripple whammy go against both of them and the future of their relationship? In a society where jobs are scarce, an adult man is treated as mama's boy and where his family secures their unemployed son safely tucked in a graduate school at age 31: an apartment with furniture and necessary utilities such as TV, credit card with unlimited credit disposal, etc. - can this man make a decision on who will share his life with? There are no winners or loosers here. This film will keep you thinking long after you are done watching it. An excellent social study about unwritten rules of conduct in partiarchal societies inflexible to changes of time.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 divorc?e. 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.
Summary of Late Marriage (Sub)
This remarkable Israeli movie starts as a sweet romantic comedy: unmarried at 31, Zaza is an embarrassment to his family. Though they parade him past young, attractive, and eligible girls, he resists them all--because Zaza already has a secret love affair with Judith, a divorc?e. Zaza knows his parents would never accept Judith; but when his parents find out, the results are worse than either of them ever expected, leading to a harrowing and sad conclusion. Late Marriage has an amazing richness of character and honesty about their behavior. Every turn of the story is full of lively, unexpected details; there's not a predictable moment in the entire movie. The extensive sex scene between Zaza and Judith has an intimacy and dimension unseen in American movies. Quite simply, one of the best movies of 2001. --Bret FetzerGeneral Video
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