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Bubble, The
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8.2

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Starring Ohad Knoller, Alon Friedman, Daniela Virtzer, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Miki Kam, and Shredi Jabarin

Three young Israelis, two guys and a girl, share an apartment in Tel Aviv’s hippest neighborhood. As they try to put aside political conflicts and focus on their lives and loves, these progressive 20-somethings are often accused of living in an escapist “bubble”. Among them are three young Israeli flatmates: headstrong Lulu, who works in a bath products boutique, flamboyant Yali, who manages a trendy café, and brooding music store clerk Noam, who spends his weekends serving in the National Guard at checkpoints. When Noam meets and falls in love with a young Palestinian man named Ashraf, the young Israelis decide to help Ashraf stay on in Tel Aviv illegally. They dress him in modern Israeli garb, give him a Hebrew name and put him to work in Yali's café. They all decide to celebrate their peaceful coexistence at a beach party calling for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. But the young people's utopia is shattered by the political and social realities of the Middle East. (Strand Releasing)

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Gal Uchovsky Eytan Fox
DIRECTED BY:	Eytan Fox
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 12, 2008 Theatrical: September 7, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	90 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Israel
LANGUAGE(S):	Hebrew / Arabic / English

Alternate Title: Buah, Ha-

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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Fox stumbles a little at the end, which is unnecessarily exaggerated. He should have trusted his own talent - it's the attention to minor details that makes his work so memorable.

San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand

The Bubble surprises us at every turn.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Director and co-writer Eytan Fox is going for a sexually democratic, politically aware variation on story themes familiar to "Sex and the City" viewers. (At one point Lulu is referred to as "Miss Israeli Carrie Bradshaw.") Surprisingly, it works, and the entire cast is excellent.

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Mr. Fox may be a romantic, but he understands that love is rarely all you need.

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

It's only when The Bubble takes a swift turn into domino-tipping tragedy in the final act that a tender, fraught love story feels casually discarded in favor of something psychologically pat and ham-fistedly earth-shattering.

Variety Dennis Harvey

Eytan Fox delivers another involving tale in The Bubble.

Village Voice Ella Taylor

Given the upbeat, tender rhythms of the movie's love story, the climax--a cry of bottomless despair--comes as a profound shock. It's meant to, and though the ending is touched by the goofy absurdities of melodrama, Fox's mix-and-match sampling of apparently incompatible genres nails the nervous blend of vitality and desperation that is Israel today.

The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber

One might question the operatic finale, which doesn't quite have the inevitability of the greatest tragic love stories. But the film's humanism gives it an overwhelming impact. To Israeli audiences, the experience must be even more explosive.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Real love is often as complicated and painful as Middle Eastern politics, and Fox might have been better off acknowledging that, rather than making his characters such vague, sweet, safe ciphers.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Sweet tempered but occasionally simplistic youth picture about three young, progressive Israelis who share a flat in a chic section of Tel Aviv.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

The comedy is without distinction and the conclusion is melodramatic. I must note that ads for the film are misleading because they give no hint of the dark side of The Bubble.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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Ian P. gave it a1:
Good acting, but melodramatic, horrible ending, full of cliches about Jews, Arabs, gays. Tries to be everything to everyone and ends up failing at every turn. They should have focused on hipsters in Tel Aviv, instead of trying to tell a "bigger" story about the Mideast conflict.

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Bubble, The Strand Releasing

Bubble, The
Strand Releasing