{"id":101705,"date":"2012-08-09T05:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=101705"},"modified":"2012-08-08T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:37:34","slug":"the-matchmaker-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/08\/09\/the-matchmaker-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matchmaker Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: THE MATCHMAKER (Paam hayti)<\/p>\n<p>Menemsha Films<\/p>\n<p>Director:  Avi Nesher<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter:  Avi Nesher, inspired by Amir Gutfreund\u2019s novel \u201cWhen Heroes Fly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cast:  Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Dov Navon, Tuval Shafir, Neta Porat, Yarden Bar-Kochva, Bat-el Papura, Kobi Farag<\/p>\n<p>Screened at:  Broadway, NYC, 8\/7\/12<\/p>\n<p>Opens: August 17, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ask American kids in the forties how they spent their summer vacations and they\u2019ll talk about playing hide-and-seek, ringalevio, marbles, territory, and best of all stick ball and punch ball in the gutter where success was measure by how many sewer lengths you could hit.  Ask American kids in the late sixties and you\u2019ll hear about smoking weed, listening to Jefferson Airplane, and maybe tuning into to Ravi Shankar on the sitar. Ask Israeli kids how they spent the forties and they\u2019ll talk about ducking bombs, working on the kibbutz, and preparing to serve in the military.   And Israelis In the late sixties?  No free love: they never heard of it.  No Beatles.  No hide-and-seek, marbles, or stick ball.  Just a few thousand miles of separation and you\u2019re in a different teen world.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Avi Nesher who directs \u201cThe Matchmaker\u201d a delightful, touching, sentimental and exquisitely photographed memory story, a coming-of-age tale touching on on a young Israeli man\u2019s introduction into the pleasures of a woman but with equally attention-getting stories involving a middle-aged librarian who has never dated, an older fellow who is a professional matchmaker, a blond immigrant from Eastern Europe who survived the Holocaust which has affected her relationships with men, and an Iraqi-born American girl who brings her liberated culture into Israel\u2019s leading seaport town before returning with her dad to the States.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is inspired by Amir Gurfreund\u2019s book \u201cWhen Heroes Fly\u201dand directed by Nesher, whose previous entries to the cinema world includes \u201cDizengoff 99\u201d about a spaced-out hippie, a nerd and  sexy girl who try to produce an advertisement in Israel.  When a 50-something writer, Arik Burstein (Eyal Shechter) gets a surprise windfall from the will of Yankele Bride (Adir Miller), he wonders how simply being the older man\u2019s assistant named him the sole inheritor of the estate. <\/p>\n<p>This brings him back mentally to the summer of 1968 when young Arik (Tuval Shafir) gets a job from thematchmaker, principally to spy on others in Haifa who could become clients of the man.  They work out of a seedy part of Haifa where shady women, smugglers, and bums hang out near a movie theater owned by a family of dwarfs, particularly Sylvia (Bat-el Papura), a desperate client of Yankel.  Yankele is in love with the blond Clara Epstein (Maya Dagan), emotionally damaged by her experience during the Holocaust and thought by some to have survived by supplying \u201cservices\u201d to the Nazis.  Clara rebuffs not only Yankele but also Meir (Dror Keren), a forty-year-old virgin, who ultimately turns on her after being regularly refused.  For that matter even Yankele is suspect as he, too, is a survivor.  The relationship between the 17-year-old Arik and the much older Yankele anchors the film, whose \u201cMarty\u201d-like humor comes largely from Meir\u2019s nerdy neediness and Yankele\u2019s aggressive attempts to recruit customers not only for money, but because he believes his mission in life is to provide love. \u201cIt is not good for man to be alone,\u201d as Genesis 2:18 states.<\/p>\n<p>The acting of the ensemble (particularly the older characters)  is more than competent, the humor poignant, the unrequited love haunting.  Haifa is seen as a salad bowl (not a melting pot) of secular Jews from Iraq and Romania, a few Orthodox, and Arabs, living together and putting up now and then with missiles lobbed from Lebanon.  In Hebrew with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unrated. 112 minutes \u00a9 2012 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 B+<\/p>\n<p>Acting \u2013 B+<\/p>\n<p>Technical \u2013 A-<\/p>\n<p>Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-matchmaker-movie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-matchmaker-movie.jpg\" alt=\"The Matchmaker Movie\" title=\"The Matchmaker Movie\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-101734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-matchmaker-movie.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-matchmaker-movie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-matchmaker-movie-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" 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