2012
Menemsha Films
1 h 52 m

2012
Menemsha Films
1 h 52 m

Summary Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the...

Drama

Directed By: Avi Nesher

Written By: Amir Gutfreund, Avi Nesher

2012
Menemsha Films
1 h 52 m

2012
Menemsha Films
1 h 52 m

The Matchmaker

Name: The Matchmaker
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012-08-17
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Rating: 69
Cast: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Tuval Shafir, Neta Porat

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Drama

Directed By: Avi Nesher

Written By: Amir Gutfreund, Avi Nesher

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Aug 18, 2012

The Matchmaker is at heart an unexpectedly complex film about love, but also an examination of Israel in flux, a country with one foot in the past and another in the future – a weight that may never fully vacate Israeli shoulders.

By Mark Zhuravsy FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Aug 14, 2012

An old-fashioned Mediterranean coming-of-age story set in the young heart of the Levant, The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like "Cinema Paradiso" with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel's summer of the Six-Day War.

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Los Angeles Times

Aug 13, 2012

It sounds like a throwback to an earlier, more traditional style of Israeli filmmaking but it instead provides a view of that country that's as satisfyingly eccentric and unexpected as anything we've seen.

By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW

Chicago Sun-Times

Dec 12, 2012

This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage. You know who might have made it in the old days? I kept thinking of Woody Allen. You don't know what you want. Woody knows what you want.

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Boston Globe

Aug 13, 2012

How does a filmmaker tell a Holocaust story that hasn't been told before? The Matchmaker does it by weaving fable with realism, coming-of-age innocence with adult grief, and guilt with romanticism.

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Slant Magazine

Aug 13, 2012

The film ultimately fails to treat history as anything but a string of melodramatic reference points for moody characters haplessly trying to find love.

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Time Out

Aug 14, 2012

A former stand-up comic, Miller lends a sense of puckish mischief to his tenderhearted, troubled Cupid, yet everything else about this drama - even the cultural and spirit-of-'68 historical touches - feels like Nesher is simply mashing several stock elements together and gracelessly parading them around.

By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Metro Communications, Artomas Communications, United Channel Movies

Release Date Aug 17, 2012

Duration 1 h 52 m

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Drama

Tagline He gets you what you need, not what you want!

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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy

• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations

Chicago International Film Festival

• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

Film by the Sea International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

The Matchmaker

Top Cast

Adir Miller

Yankele Bride

Maya Dagan

Clara Epstein

Dror Keren

Meir the Librarian

Tuval Shafir

Arik Burstein

Neta Porat

Tamara

Bat-El Papura

Sylvia

Dov Navon

Yozi Burstein

Yarden Bar-Kochba

Nili Burstein

Yael Levental

Tikva Abadi

Kobi Farag

Moshe Abadi

Tom Gal

Benny Abadi

Eli Yatzpan

Uncle Nadgi

Eyal Shehter

Arik Burstein (Adult)

Ya'ackov Bodo

Advocate Segelson

Tair Leah Arad

Michal Abadi

Ben Kippris

Yoram

Aharon Zilberberg

Yonel

Assi Yitzchaki

Vendor

Yael Levine

Young Woman at Library

Emmanuel Chanun

Bagel baker

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