The Matchmaker (2012)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 1
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Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's
Jun 29, 2012 Limited
Menemsha Films
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Cast
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Adir Miller
Yankele Bride -
Maya Dagan
Clara Epstein -
Don Navon
Yozi Burstein -
Dror Keren
Meir the Librarian -
Tuval Shafir
Arik Burstein -
Bat-el Papura
Sylvia -
Eli Jaspan
Uncle Nadgi -
Yael Leventhal
Tikva Abadi -
Yarden Bar-Kochva
Nili Burstein -
Neta Porat
Tamara -
Kobi Farag
Moshe Abadi -
Tom Gal
Benny Abadi -
Eyal Shechter
Arik Burstein - Adult -
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (3)
The shadow of the Holocaust hangs over this unique Israeli coming-of-age film, which deals with a special kind of survivor's guilt.
Top CriticNesher ... has a populist touch, showing a sure hand with the numerous subplots and never allowing us to lose sight of his characters' humanity, even the mostly pathetic villain of the piece.
This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage.
A different kind of coming-of-age story, one infused with the lingering horrors of the Holocaust.
A movie that's somehow delightful even as it visits devastation.
The film intelligently portrays how, even years later, the memories of trauma can be enough to inhibit a person from finding happiness - and consequently, how essential love is.
At heart an unexpectedly complex film about love, but also an examination of Israel in flux, a country with one foot in the past and another in the future - a weight that may never fully vacate Israeli shoulders.
Contains an undercurrent of real menace, not just candy nostalgia.
The Matchmaker is to fine drama what gefilte fish is to lox. Hold the cream cheese.
Though aided by beautiful views of Haifa, some amusing entertainment, and flashes of poignancy, the appeal is mostly heavily laden, cross-generational nostalgia.
The film ultimately fails to treat history as anything but a string of melodramatic reference points for moody characters haplessly trying to find love.
A delightful, subtle Israeli coming-of-age comedy-drama.
Points to Nesher for maintaining an even balance between the darker and lighter shades of his palette, not to mention the subtlety with which he moves from one to the other.
A fascinating Euro-Israeli rite of passage story...See this.
The jokes come naturally and frequently, but the film also haunts with unexpected potency...
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Foreign Titles
- Ein Sommer in Haifa (DE)
- The Matchmaker (UK)
