Antarctica takes urban loneliness as its subject, but though all the characters are strikingly attractive, there's nothing frothy or pandering about Hochner's hermetic homosexual world.
Antarctica (2008)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:5
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.1/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, nudity and language
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis:
From acclaimed director/writer Yair Hochner arriving the first Israeli queer romantic sexy comedy.
In two days, Omer will hit a milestone; his 30th birthday. Like many his age, he hasn’t found...
From acclaimed director/writer Yair Hochner arriving the first Israeli queer romantic sexy comedy.
In two days, Omer will hit a milestone; his 30th birthday. Like many his age, he hasn’t found himself. But then Omer is hardly looking. Instead he chooses to loose himself among the stacks of books at the local library, where he works. It is a respite from real life. From time to time he goes on blind dates. He meets Danny on one of his dates. 20 years old and full of enthusiasm, Danny dreams of becoming a dancer.
Shirley, Omer’s little sister, has her own problems. Aside from being Omer’s greatest annoyance, she is in an unconventional relationship with, Michal, owner of the city’s hippest coffeehouse and her boss.
Just when it seems that Omer has completely lost his spark and all seems lost. Enter Ronen, the handsome journalist who ignites the flame Omer has been seeking.
Everyone is hoping for a change. They are waiting for the light. The light that will thaw their frozen hearts. But only one person has the answer, Matilda Rose, the alien loving best-selling novelist can solve the issue; Is love dead or are we just looking in all the wrong places?--© Official Site
Starring: Tomer Ilan, Lucy Dubinchik, Guy Zo-Artez, Liat Akta
Starring: Tomer Ilan, Lucy Dubinchik, Guy Zo-Artez, Liat Akta, Yiftach Mizrahi, Ofer Regirer, Rivka Neuman, Yuval Raz, Liala Carry, Dvir Benedek, Yael Deckelbaum
Director: Yair Hochner
Director: Yair Hochner
Screenwriter: Yair Hochner
Producer: Eitan Reuven
Composer: Eli Soorani
Studio: Regent Releasing
Reviews for Antarctica
Manages to combine sizzling sex scenes with an actual heart, putting all of the low-budget gay trash that American audiences must suffer through to shame.
This new Israeli sex romp is a better advertisement for the country than a tourist bureau could provide -- at least for gay travelers.
It's smart and funny and stylish in a not too obvious way. In other words, it's a good movie, just because it's a good movie.
Gay life in today's Tel Aviv is better presented cinematically by the work of Eytan Fox than in this overpopulated, callow effort.
The dialogue is lame enough to make one think that the story exists only as an excuse for the sexual couplings.
While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection.
Hochner is terrific at staging intimate encounters, and he gets his story off to a lively start -- only to run out of ideas and momentum.
Amusingly makes the point that men can be rotten to each other like to women in so many heterosexual romantic comedies, but makes this point over and over again.
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