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Movie Review for Late Marriage
Movie Review for
Late Marriage
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44 Reviews total.
Release date: 5/17/2002
Run length: 100 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Drama
Summary:
Within the Georgian emigre community of Tel Aviv, a look at what happens when human beings get stuck between the rock of true love and the hard place of family tradition. Lily and Yasha are distraught that their 31-year-old son Zaza has not yet married. He is handsome, intelligent, charismatic... So why no wife? Zaza humors his parents as they expound on the need for him to marry a young virgin (beautiful and from a good family of course) and suffers as they drag him to meet one "suitable" girl after another. But he is uninterested: In brazen disregard of his parents' strict Georgian tradition, Zaza is in love with Judith, a beautiful 34-year-old Moroccan divorcee. What's more, she has a six-year-old daughter. The family would never approve and he is determined to keep the affair a secret from them. Forced to choose between his familial obligations and his body-and-soul love for Judith, Zaza doesn't know where to turn.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Danny Graydon
of BBC (7/0)
...accomplished and tremendously engaging...
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (7/0)
I am sorry that I was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy.
By
Nathaniel Rogers
of CineScene.com (7/0)
'The film, in its own remarkably
observational way, gradually transforms from an often brutal com...
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/0)
The 1960s rebellion was misdirected: you can't fight your culture.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/0)
The 1960s rebellion was misdirected: you can't fight your culture.
By
Arthur Lazere
of culturevulture.net (7/0)
There aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of Georgian Jews in Tel ...
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
A highlight of Israeli cinema of the past decade, Kosashvili's impressive feature debut is an ext...
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
There's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of Monsoon Wedding in Late Marriage -- and that's...
By
Daniel Steinhart
of Film Journal International (7/0)
Brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of trad...
By
Pete Croatto
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Takes a look at an Old World, passionless arrangement in a way that is at once so biting and so b...
By
Frank Scheck
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
A deliciously mordant, bitter black comedy.
By
Frank Scheck
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
A deliciously mordant, bitter black comedy.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Frank Scheck
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
A deliciously mordant, bitter black comedy...
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
Unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups, not much camera movement, and most of the scenes tak...
By
Peter Rainer
of New York Magazine (7/0)
Judith and Zaza's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psycholo...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
Whatever virtues Israeli audiences might have discerned in
the film haven't survived the oceanic ...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
Late Marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions c...
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
A very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
Dover Kosashvili's first feature Late Marriage so boldly confronts Jewish Orthodox traditions it'...
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
A sprightly comedy about a young man's desperate attempt to find happiness on his own terms in Te...
By
Stephen Holden
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
...harshly funny...
By
Ed Scheid
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
Improves when it takes a more serious tone and Zaza and Judith develop into deeper characterizati...
By
John Petrakis
of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
One of those welcome visitors, a movie that turns out to be much more than we expected.
By
John Petrakis
of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
One of those welcome visitors, a movie that turns out to be much more than we expected.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Steven Rosen
of Denver Post (3/4) No reference
Unfolds in a low-key, organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow.
By
Steven Rosen
of Denver Post (3/4) No reference
Unfolds in a low-key, organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow.
By
Susan Stark
of Detroit News (3/4) No reference
A romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores.
By
Susan Stark
of Detroit News (3/4) No reference
A romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores.
By
Daniel Steinhart
of Film Journal International (3/4) No reference
...brilliantly explores the conflict between following one’s heart and following the demands of...
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (6/1) No reference
Grating and tedious.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
The movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the ph...
By
Kevin Thomas
of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
Will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest, most deceptively amusing comedies of the year.
By
Anita Schmaltz
of Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (3/4) No reference
'...young, savvy cinematic sensibility framed by the limitations of a conservative, unrelenting c...
By
Andrew Sarris
of New York Observer (3/4) No reference
The last scenes of the film are anguished, bitter and truthful. Mr. Koshashvili is a director to ...
By
Andrew Sarris
of New York Observer (3/4) No reference
The last scenes of the film are anguished, bitter and truthful. Mr. Koshashvili is a director to ...
By
Megan Turner
of New York Post (3/4) No reference
Caustically funny tug-of-love story.
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Kim Morgan
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
The picture is often hilarious but spins darker in surprising jolts.
By
Jay Boyar
of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
A terrific, thoroughly engrossing motion picture.
By
Eric Allen Hatch
of Orlando Weekly (3/4) No reference
For the most part, first-time feature director Dover Kosashvili handles his simple story quite ab...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of San Francisco Examiner (3/4) No reference
Has the pulse of real life and the daring to allow logic and emotion to collide with painful resu...
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (3/4) No reference
...so boldly confronts Jewish Orthodox traditions it's a minor miracle it never becomes glib.
By
Gerry Shamray
of Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (6/1) No reference
Using an endearing cast, writer/director Dover Kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relations...
Reviews of Late Marriage
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
A canny (and profoundly sexy) movie.
By
Connie Ogle
of Miami Herald (6/1) Not Reachable
Late Marriage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep U.S. viewers of...
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