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Director: Roberto Faenza
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From Time Out Film Guide
In this controlled slice of heartfelt liberal whimsy, based on AB Yehoshua's The Lover, Adam (Hinds), a Tel Aviv garage-owner, allows his teacher wife Asya (Aubrey) to be seduced by Gabriel (Bunce), a caricatured 'stranger', in the hope that it might assuage her long-held guilt over their deaf son's accidental death. When the stranger disappears, his wife's spirit hits bottom, and Adam is forced on a lengthy quest to find Gabriel (and therefore Asya). Faenza dovetails a more interesting subplot about the tentative relationship growing between Adam's more practical daughter Dafi (Bryant, first rate) and one of her father's young Palestinian employees, the sensitive but torn Naim (the equally excellent Vazquez).Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Roberto Faenza
Producer: Elda Ferri
Cast: Ciaran Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Stuart Bunce, Clara Bryant, Erick Vazquez, Cyrus Elias, Edoardo Moscone, Phyllida Law full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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