The wedding plan
Original title : “Le’evur et hakir”, meaning “Through the wall”
Language : Hebrew
Year of release : 2016
Run time : 1h50min
Genre : Drama / Romance
Cast : Noa Koler, Amos Tamam
The Israeli movie was written and directed by Rama Burshtein.
A woman who considers herself passed her prime, desperately wants to get married,with anyone.
The movie starts with her in the waiting room of a sort of fortune teller. She tells her she wants to have a husband to love and to love her back,because she doesn’t want to be alone anymore.
She decides to get married on the 8th day of Hanukkah,although her fiance leaves her because he doesn’t love her.
She goes on dates where men ask her to marry them,but when they hear she wants to marry them in 12 days,they change their minds. The same thing kinda happens to her,as she finds a singer who wants to marry her but when asked,she questions his decision,thinking / saying he’s just playing with her. She does this to everyone.
She wants to get married, but when a man takes her seriously, she doesn’t take him seriously, saying he mocks her,and gets angry with him! It feels she doesn’t know what she wants!
The movie was depressing although it was funny at times,but to see this woman who wanted to have someone,afraid to grow old alone,was sad.
At the end she gets an unexpected surprise as she hits the jackpot.
To be honest I don’t know how can someone marry someone they don’t know,as we all have our quirks,and we need some time to know someone,to see if we understand them,if we like their personality,their day to day routine and so on.
It felt to me like she didn’t have enough time to know anyone as she set a deadline,and she was running towards it. And yet ,whoever asked her to marry them,she would shut them down.
It felt like she wanted to marry but at the same time she didn’t,or maybe,not that particular someone.
The acting was good. Noa Koler who played the lead, Michal, won the Best Actress award in the Israeli feature Films category of the Haifa International Film Festival.
The soundtrack was good.
The movie received positive reviews, with an 86% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 66% audience score, and a 6.5 out of 10 rating on IMDB.
Rating : Could have been a contender !