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Critics Consensus: The Wedding Plan is steeped in convention, but has a thoroughly charming star and enough fresh twists to set it pleasantly apart.
Critic Consensus: The Wedding Plan is steeped in convention, but has a thoroughly charming star and enough fresh twists to set it pleasantly apart.
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An engaging (and surprisingly entertaining) examination, not of belief, but of a believer, a struggling soul who more often than not blocks her own path to paradise.
The film's structural shortcomings will matter less to most viewers than the personality of the central character, Michal.
This is a film of subtle humor and universal appeal. Just don't expect a carefree romp.
You've probably never seen a romantic comedy like "The Wedding Plan."
Unexpectedly rich, "The Wedding Plan" uses the frame of an apparent romantic comedy as a vehicle to study religious faith, loneliness, culture and inner turmoil.
Once this measured film kicks in, predictability falls away, sending Michal on a twisty, awkward, darkly humorous and emotionally raw march toward the chuppah.
... those with the patience for a quieter story about making it to the altar should find Michal relatable and worth rooting for.
As Michal's crisis deepens, the film begins to put aside that comic patina and Noa Koler's face is effective at transmitting the mood changes her character goes through. [Full review in Spanish]
Burshtein doesn't critique the social restrictions that Michal feels, which keeps her film from feeling parochial.
Director Burshtein is both morally serious and subtly funny, overcoming the clichés of romantic comedy with a sideways exploration of the nature of love and faith.
Yes, [it] sounds like high-concept nonsense, but the movie transcends such confining boundaries, probably because of Burshtein's good-humored affection for the characters who populate her story.
The Wedding Plan won Israel's award for Best Film, for very good reasons.
Perhaps the title should have been "My Not So Big Hebrew Wedding Without a Groom." A brutally honest look at loneliness and the pressure to find the person who you will spend the rest of one's life with. With the most close-up shot I have ever seen in a movie the lead character played by Noa Kooler shows so much emotions with her mouth and eyes than most actors with their entire body. Mavel tov indeed! (5-26-17)
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