Synopsis
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
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Cast
- Lior AshkenaziZaza (as Lior Louie Ashkenazi)
- Ronit ElkabetzJudith
- Moni MoshonovYasha
- Lili KoshashviliLili
- Aya SteinovitzIlana (as Aya Steinovitz Laor)
- Rosina KambusMagouly (as Rosina Cambos)
- Simon ChenSimon
- Sapir KugmanMadona
- Dina DoronLuba
- Leonid KanevskiyOtary (as Leonid Kanevski)
Recommendations
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Christian Science Monitor
The acting is superb, the filmmaking is imaginative, and the story never goes quite where you expect. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
So intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Late Marriage will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest, most deceptively amusing comedies of the year. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
Watch for the director's own mother, Lili Kosashvili, a standout as Zaza's fierce, stately mama. - 88
Baltimore Sun
Until the final shot, the movie keeps you wondering how it will turn out. - 80
Washington Post
Late Marriage is a closely observed, somewhat funny, ultimately very sad movie. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The most important sequence in Late Marriage is a refreshingly frank sex scene involving Zaza and Judith. -- Watching this scene, we realize that most sex scenes in the movies play like auditions. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
This superbly played film, directed with remarkable skill for a first-time feature filmmaker, is truly an adult drama.
