Laavor et ha-Kir (Through the wall), Israeli, directed by Rama Burshtein.
This is theoretically a comedy about a stubborn religious young woman in her thirties, Michal, who desperately wants to get married before it's too late but keeps turning down all prospective suitors who show interest in her. At the beginning we meet her arranged marriage fiancé but he doesn't love her and breaks off the engagement. Against all odds Michal hires a wedding hall for 200 guests in spite of the fact that there is no groom in sight. The date is set for the end of the Hannuka holiday just twenty days away. Will her unshakably stubborn faith in G-d deliver a groom in time? All the actors are excellent, especially Noa Kooler as Michal, however, the script which starts out auspiciously with the first couple of suitors, soon turns into a stale one joke melodrama that becomes less and less convincing and more and more ridiculous as time goes by.
Hefty Ms. Burshtain and her entire entourage were present at the screening but applause at the end was polite to nonexistent . A better title Would have been "Off the Wall -- from Hunger". Strictly for the glott Kosher crowd and even then, with reservations.
This is theoretically a comedy about a stubborn religious young woman in her thirties, Michal, who desperately wants to get married before it's too late but keeps turning down all prospective suitors who show interest in her. At the beginning we meet her arranged marriage fiancé but he doesn't love her and breaks off the engagement. Against all odds Michal hires a wedding hall for 200 guests in spite of the fact that there is no groom in sight. The date is set for the end of the Hannuka holiday just twenty days away. Will her unshakably stubborn faith in G-d deliver a groom in time? All the actors are excellent, especially Noa Kooler as Michal, however, the script which starts out auspiciously with the first couple of suitors, soon turns into a stale one joke melodrama that becomes less and less convincing and more and more ridiculous as time goes by.
Hefty Ms. Burshtain and her entire entourage were present at the screening but applause at the end was polite to nonexistent . A better title Would have been "Off the Wall -- from Hunger". Strictly for the glott Kosher crowd and even then, with reservations.