Love at Second Sight (1999 film)

Love at Second Sight (Hebrew: אהבה ממבט שני, romanized: Ahava Mimabat Sheni) is a 1999 Israeli independent underground dramatic art film directed by Michal Bat-Adam.[1]

Love at Second Sight
Theatrical release poster
אהבה ממבט שני
Directed byMichal Bat-Adam
Written byMichal Bat-Adam
Produced byMichal Bat-Adam
Starring
  • Michal Zoharetz
  • Alon Abutbul
  • Yossi Yadin
  • Nathan Cogan
  • Yigal Sade
  • Chaim Banai
  • Devorah Bertonov
  • Davida Karol
  • Matti Bahar
  • Ruth Geller
  • Orly Katan
  • Ra'anan Hefetz
  • Sami Huri
  • Shachar Bar
  • Shosh Shlam
  • Micha Celektar
  • Amir Bone
  • Michael Teplitzky
  • Itzik Farage
  • Guy Loel
  • Uri Omanuti
  • Ma'ayan Erez
  • Dror Shaked
  • Anat Salonim
  • Mira Kazdan
  • Shlomit Arnon
  • Daniel Mizrahi
  • Tal Yakobovich
  • Roee Hassan
  • Amos Ungar
  • Tammy Gropper
  • Leonid Kresnik
  • Doron Avrahami
  • Raz Binyamin
  • Yossi Eliyahu
  • Ariel Horowitz
  • Uzi Adarbi
  • Sandra Er
  • Elior Hemo
  • Eli Ben-David
  • Eli Salama
  • Shaul Biton
  • Marius van Dam
  • Göran Bergqvist
  • Sergey Selinkin
  • Uzi Dvir
  • Ran Bone
  • Limor Prag
  • Ruth Sheffer
  • Tal Terem
  • Gil Ben-David
  • Netanel Alon
  • Dror Ruth
CinematographyYoav Kosh
Edited byBoaz Leon
Music by
  • Daniel Mizrahi
  • Yehuda Oppenheimer
Production
companies
Distributed byNational Center for Jewish Film
Release date
  • 18 February 1999 (18 February 1999) (Israel)
Running time
90 Minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew
Budget$ 400,000

Synopsis

Nina (Michal Zoharetz), a 25-year-old photographer living with an 80-year-old senior, Frumin (Nathan Cogan), with whom she is in a relationship, and, who developed an interest in the field due to the fact that her grandfather, Olek (Yossi Yadin, played by Micha Celektar as a younger man), was one too, discovers one day in one of the photos she took an interesting-looking man, Dan (Alon Abutbul), she did not notice while taking the picture. She begins looking for him, becoming obsessed with this search: Although Nina knows nothing about this man, she feels as if her relation to him is not some caprice, and knows he is meant for her and that she must find him, for, otherwise, she may not be able to live with herself.[2]

Reception

Writing in Haaretz, critic Uri Klein opined that the film, "although taking place in contemporary times, has something old in it, of an older, different, Israel, much older in fact, in which young women lived with elderly men and served their most elementary romantic fantasies."[3]

References
  1. Sason, Yasmin; Parkhomovsky, Marat (20 December 2010). מיכל בת־אדם. Israeli Cinema Testimonial Database (in Hebrew). Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. Elkariv, Yakir (2 March 1999). אל תתפלאו על הקהל אחר־כך [Do Not Be Stunned When the Audience Refuses to Come] (PDF). Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  3. Klein, Uri (10 March 1999). עולם ילדותי [A Childish World] (PDF). Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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