To
take a wife
Shlomi Elkabetz, Ronit
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Haifa,
1979. On Wednesday night, Vivian’s
seven bro-thers gather in order to persuade
her not to divorce her husband, Eliyahoo.
Eliyahoo would have liked to preserve
the customs of the old traditional world
of Morocco, from where they came. However,
unhappy Vivian, wife and mother of four
children, would have liked to live a
new life in modern Israel. Hairdresser
for friends and neighbours in her apartment
building, and has cold, confrontational
conversations with Elyahoo. Vivian and
Eliyahu are estranged. Twenty years
of mar-riage and raising four children
together cannot alter that. A claustrophobic
portrait of a loveless marriage held
together in a vice of religious and
social convention which takes place
in Israel of the late 70’s.
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Shlomi
Elkabetz Born in 1975.
Works in the cinema since 1996. He studied
acting and photography in New York.
Today he lives and works in Israel and
teaches in the film school ASCOLA TLV.
Ronit
Elkabetz Althougt she
was first a sucessfull fashion designer,
it was as an actress that she made a
career in the cinema and won several
awards. This film was made along with
her brother.
“This
is a personal, semi-autobiographical
movie, made by a sister and brother.
We needed very few words to express
our thoughts to each other. We were
motivated by a dire need of telling
our story in the purest and most profound
manner possible, thus inviting the viewers
to examine themselves in light of our
truth.”
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Israel,
France 2004, 97’, 35 mm, 1:1.66,
Cor / Color, Dolby SR |
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Argumento:
Shlomi Elkabetz e Ronit Elkabetz
Fotografia: Yaron Scharf
Montagem: Joelle Alexis
Com: Ronit Elkabetz
(Viviane), Simon Abkarian (Eliahou),
Gilbert Melki (Albert), Sulika Kadosh
(Mémé), Dalia Beger (Dona),
Kobi Regev (Eviatar), Omer Moshkovitz
(Gabrielle), Yam Eitan (Lior)
Produtor: Marck Rozenbaum,
Itai Tamir, Jean Philippe Reza
Produção: Transfax film
production
Awards and Festivals
2004: Jerusalem Film Festival
(Best Actress), Venice Film Festival
(Isvema Critics Award, The Gan Public
Award), Nantes Int. Film Festival (Best
Actor), Hamburg Film Festival (Prize
of the Hamburg Filmfest Critics), Thessaloniki
Int. Film Festival (Best Actor), London
Film Festival
Sales
Transfax film production
22 Nachmanl Street
Tel-Aviv 65201
Israel
T: +97235661484
transfax@
netvision.net.II1
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