B
Lior Ashkenazi and Ronit Elkabetz are excellent actors doing their absolute best with material that gives them nothing to work with. And yes, everyone seems absolutely thrilled about the extended sex scene. Groundbreaking stuff, really. Maybe it swept the Israeli Academy Awards because Orthodox Jews had never seen sex without a sheet with a hole between the parties? Someone alert the Cannes jury: sex has been discovered! This isn't the first film to tackle arranged marriage or suffocating patriarchy. Indian cinema has been doing it better for decades, including Mira Nair's Golden Globe-winn…
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