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Walk on Water (2004)

Director: Eytan Fox

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From Time Out New York

Cultures clash and personal creeds collide in Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's melodrama about a Mossad assassin (Ashkenazi) assigned to shadow a German homosexual and his expat sister—the grandkids of a famous fugitive Nazi. Part straight-to-video potboiler and part tolerance plea, Fox's exercise in genre hybridization (behold, the international espionage thriller/alternative-lifestyle love story?) suffers from never finding a middle ground where its varied ideas can intertwine. Even if you agree with the film's moral, the heavy-handed haranguing and slapdash direction make it one lackluster lecture on the body politic.

Author: DF 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out New York Website

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Walk on Water

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Director: Eytan Fox

Producer: Amir Harel

Cast: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Carolina Peters full cast

Duration: 104 mins

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