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Contact with the Creator" (from dialogue with the faithful bride)
Admired eyes and pure girl tears at a pop band concert. When the camera moves around the room, recording different, but such similar in its genuine openness of the soul female faces, it seems that Rama Burstein has discovered, flaunting, some important secret of the female soul. That this is the essence of what lies behind the complex, contradictory and sometimes unanalyzable complex of words, emotions and actions of a woman. In the eyes of 32-year-old Michal, who came to the concert, sad fatigue. She knows that on the back of the scale of all these feelings and experiences can be many years of unsuccessful search for a life partner: 490 hours of fruitless dates with 123 guys. A broken engagement when you're over 30. Give up further attempts? Or stop “building a princess,” as friends advise, and meet someone who brought you to tears and openly stated that he did not love you?
But Michal is a religious Jew, and she chooses a third way. If “it is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18), then of course God wills and can send Michal a husband for that less than a full month that remains until the day of the wedding that has not yet been canceled. Michal continues to prepare for the wedding ... and wait for the groom. “Even the righteous do not do this,” marvels the rabbi of the bride’s audacity. “I demand absolute faith that God will give it,” Michal explains, saying that he does not require anything from God, that the problem is with her and her own shortcomings that prevent her from continuing to believe in the victory of good. The fight against despair threatens a scandal in the hall for 200 people and, according to the mother, a disgrace.
Noah Kohler is organic and beautiful in the role of a sad, slightly tense bride, who has repeatedly been called to marry either out of frivolity, or without love, then for some reason checking her reaction. But each time they came across something in her serious character that forced them to step aside. Of course, the directorship of Rama Burstein is also good, forcing you to remember and think about a minor episode with a sad and brave little girl who was not allowed to pet a snake.
Two days before the wedding without a groom. The most interesting and promising gentleman calls and says that he can not get Michal out of his mind. He's on duty now and offers to meet again in a week. Michal is silent for a few seconds. What would you say?
9 out of 10
Original