Nina's Tragedies

A Very Sad Comedy
Nina's Tragedies
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DVD Details

  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 13, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2003
  • Label: Wellspring

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Fresh61%

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Upright81%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 600
A dark, morose, confusing hodgepodge of uninteresting and unbelievable characters. Full Review
Film Journal International
Mar 1, 2007
The comedy is feather-light and the emotions are drawn on situation, rather than on genuine involvement with substantively developed characters.
culturevulture.net
Jul 24, 2005
Rating: 2/4 -- Passing eccentricities of character, but serious trouble staging honest and coherent emotional scenes....a surplus of preciousness and a deficit of truth-ringing reality.
Groucho Reviews
Jul 29, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments.
Philadelphia Inquirer
May 26, 2005
Rating: B- -- Ayelet Zorer gives Nina grace, sexiness and a real personality. She's someone you'd want to see a movie about, though maybe you'd wish the movie were a little more polished than this one. Full Review
EricDSnider.com
Dec 6, 2005
The film constantly shifts between being funny -- frequently outright hilarious -- and sad while from time to time becoming both simultaneously...
Los Angeles Times
Apr 1, 2005
Rating: B- -- Israeli society is one that has ample experience processing grief, and Nina's Tragedies explores that challenge with humanity and humor. Full Review
Oregonian
Aug 12, 2005

Product Description:

This lovingly crafted Israeli film neatly combines kinky eroticism, drama, and quirky comedy. An interlocking series of stories are all observed or heard about by 14-year-old Nadav (Aviv Elkabets), who, beneath his glasses, braces, and bad haircut, suffers tortured longing for his sexy aunt, Nina (Ayelet July Zurer). He and his adult friend, Menahem (Dov Navon), peep at Nina through her apartment windows as she gets undressed, masturbates, or makes love to her husband Haimon (Yoram Hatav). Nadiv's father (Shmil Ben-Ari) left the family to join a yeshiva, and when Haimon dies in a terrorist bombing, mom sends Nadav to live with Nina. It's Nadav's dream come true, until his aunt falls for an overly emotional photographer (Alon Aboutboul) and starts seeing her dead husband walking naked down the street. Nadav can't take playing third fiddle to an older man and a ghost, so he moves in with his dad, who's dying.

Gabizon's film sparkles with nuance, odd coincidences, and hilarious, sudden plot digressions; and the warm color photography and Zurer's naturalistic beauty glow throughout. It's tragic without being cloying, funny without being shrill, and best of all, very witty and irreverent. Gabizon's original script was about the adventures of a peeping tom and a nudist, and while both are still here, one can't help but be grateful for all the wonderful additions.

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