И ВЗЯТЬ СЕБЕ ЖЕНУ

17 декабря 2005 16-30 ФЕСТИВАЛЬ ИЗРАИЛЬСКОГО КИНО Большой зал дома актера И ВЗЯТЬ СЕБЕ ЖЕНУ Израиль, 2004, 1:37 Шломи Алькабец Актриса Ронит Алькабец играет женщину, которая пытается круто изменить свою жизнь и найти любовь, за эту работу получила приз за лучшую женскую роль на кинофестивале в Иерусалиме. Приз кинокритиков Венецианского фестиваля Co-directed by Shlomi Elkabetz and his sister Ronit Elkabetz, who takes the lead role and can also seen in Or (Mon Tresor) at the Festival this year, To Take A Wife is a haunting, claustrophobic portrait of a loveless marriage held together in a vice of religious and social convention. In the confines of a small apartment building in Haifa, 1979, Vivian (Ronit Elkabetz) is surrounded by men from her family and community who desperately try and convince her that she doesn't need the divorce from her traditionalist husband, Elyahoo (Simon Abkarian) that she craves. They tell her he is a good guy; he doesn't beat her, why should she complain? She stays, but so does her pained expression. She tends to the demands of her four children, acts as hairdresser for friends and neighbours in her apartment building, and has cold, confrontational conversations with Elyahoo. When an old lover calls her, there is a suggestion she may escape the bland authority of her husband. With an emotional sincerity reminiscent of John Cassavetes, To Take A Wife is a startling, quietly devastating melodrama.