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Late Marriage
(Hatuna Meuheret)

Screening on Film
Directed by Dover Koshashvili.
With Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov.
Israel/France, 2001, 35mm, color, 102 min.
Hebrew with English subtitles.

Zaza (Ashkenazi) is a good-looking and intelligent Israeli man in his thirties, but despite his family’s wishes he is still a bachelor. His relatives, holding fast to the traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage, try to arrange a marriage for him by setting him up with a series of eligible young virgins. Zaza, however, is secretly in love with Judith (Elkabetz), an opinionated divorcee with a young daughter. As Zaza struggles to decide between tradition and love, Late Marriage manages to become comic, emotional, and erotic all at once, while constantly maintaining respect for both sides of the debate. 

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