Saw two really good Israeli movies today as part of the Bay Area Israeli Film Festival: "Something Sweet" and "Turn Left at the End of the World"
A heart warming romantic tale of inopportune love between Tamar, a witty, beautiful pastry baker and the oldest of three daughters in a Jewish-Moroccan family, and… her youngest sister’s fiancée. Set against the backdrop of a small MOSHAV (agricultural village) in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister’s wedding. Maya (Avital Abrajill), the youngest, arrives to the celebration with Alon, a sharp Israeli businessman living in London. Alon’s enchantment with the close-knit family, the simplicity of village life and serene landscape, opens his heart to an almost unattainable closeness with Tamar, and re-acquaintance with his alienated father.
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Commencing just after the Six-Day War and amidst the turbulent climate of social change and post-colonialism in the '60s, "Turn Left at the End of the World" chronicles the relations between two communities -- Indian and Moroccan Jews -- in a remote Israeli desert town through the eyes of two girls coming of age. Nicole (Netta Garti) is a mouthy, flirty, but also naïve Moroccan teenager, and Sarah (Liraz Charhi) is thoughtful, intelligent, if quieter and more removed, whose family has just moved in next door.
I'll definitely want to see their main film fest, October 23 through November 20.
Posted by Emily at May 22, 2005 11:17 PM