Positive Experience/Entertaining?? Yes, I enjoyed this one. It’s a character-driven movie, which I like, and as it unfolds in Tel Aviv and Berlin it deals with issues of prejudice and the past.

Technically any good? It’s an art-house film without being too self-consciously arty; the direction is workmanlike and the performances solid.

How did it leave me feeling? I felt that I had gotten my money’s worth and had been entertained, but the resolution left me with a lot of questions– not questions having to do with plot, but with the ultimate moral message of the film. I didn’t find this off-putting; rather, I was glad that I had seen a movie that I was still thinking about a few hours after I had left the theater. Only one quibble, if it can be called that. The film deals very sympathetically with the topic of homosexuality (unsurprising, since the director is gay) and the friendship between the two male leads is tenderly well-developed, to the point where the female characters feel almost vestigial. However, since I so rarely see good gay-themed films, I’m willing to forgive the movie for that single flaw.

Final Rating?SIYL