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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence, and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the fa...

Directed By: Nitzan Gilady

Written By: Nitzan Gilady

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Wedding Doll

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence, and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the fa...

Directed By: Nitzan Gilady

Written By: Nitzan Gilady

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
Apr 14, 2016
In his first narrative feature, documentarian Nitzan Gilady demonstrates an assured grasp of visual storytelling, using a stunningly rugged desert setting that’s as much a character as the film’s perpetually sunny, intellectually challenged 24-year-old and her world-weary mother.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 14, 2016
The bittersweet and gently moving Wedding Doll sidesteps so many of the traps it sets for itself because writer-director Nitzan Gilady is less interested in the purity of his heroine than he is in what it reveals from within the people around her.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 14, 2016
Wedding Doll is a small film with a unique take on coming of age and finding one's own place in a world that's often unwelcoming to people who are different.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 14, 2016
Though the darker tonal shift toward the end is a bit jarring, director/scenarist Gilady demonstrates a deft, confident hand with the storytelling, cast and general packaging, and makes assertive use of the dramatic desert setting.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 15, 2016
I suppose the fact that I was affected as I was by Wedding Doll is testimony to its emotional effectiveness. But while Hagit is able to crack a smile at the movie’s end, I feel a pall wrapping around me every time I contemplate her predicament, or the predicament of her real-life models.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 14, 2016
Mr. Gilady, a documentarian making his fiction feature debut as a writer and director, over-stacks the deck with this belabored if artfully shot story.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 14, 2016
There’s a potentially good story to be mined here, probably most likely with the mother, but every time it starts to find fertile emotional ground, it can’t help but become distracted and search for another surface.
By Michael Snydel FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Gilady Nitzan Films, Israel Film Fund, Makor Fund for Israeli Films, Second Television & Radio Authority
Release Date Apr 15, 2016
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Tender Dreams Unravel One Stitch At A Time
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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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