Late Marriage

Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi), a good-looking PhD student at Tel Aviv University, is pushing 32. As he’s considered quite a catch in the matchmaking scene, his family is eager to see him fall in line with tradition and marry a beautiful young woman from a reputable Georgian home. Zaza politely plays along as his parents (Moni Moshonov and Lili Kosashvili, also the director’s mother) shop him around to dozens and dozens of prospective brides, but by night he conceals a double life: a steamy affair with Judith (Ronit Elkabetz), a Moroccan divorcée with a six-year-old daughter (Sapir Kugman). Despite the depth of their feelings for each other, both know that it would be explosive if Zaza’s conservative parents found out the truth. Dover Kosashvili’s Ophir Award-winning modern classic of contemporary Israeli cinema is a tender but tough comedy of manners, and groundbreaking in its frank depiction of sexuality amid a cultural and generational clash.