The Bubble

Name: The Bubble
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: September 7, 2007
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Daniela Virtzer, Ohad Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid

2007

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 7, 2007 | Unrated

Starring: Daniela Virtzer, Ohad Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid

Summary: Three young Israelis, two guys and a girl, share an apartment in Tel Aviv’s hippest neighborhood. As they try to put aside political conflicts and focus on their lives and loves, these progressive 20-somethings are often accused of living in an escapist “bubble”. Among them are three young Israeli flatmates: headstrong Lulu, who works inThree young Israelis, two guys and a girl, share an apartment in Tel Aviv’s hippest neighborhood. As they try to put aside political conflicts and focus on their lives and loves, these progressive 20-somethings are often accused of living in an escapist “bubble”. Among them are three young Israeli flatmates: headstrong Lulu, who works in a bath products boutique, flamboyant Yali, who manages a trendy café, and brooding music store clerk Noam, who spends his weekends serving in the National Guard at checkpoints. When Noam meets and falls in love with a young Palestinian man named Ashraf, the young Israelis decide to help Ashraf stay on in Tel Aviv illegally. They dress him in modern Israeli garb, give him a Hebrew name and put him to work in Yali's café. They all decide to celebrate their peaceful coexistence at a beach party calling for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. But the young people's utopia is shattered by the political and social realities of the Middle East. (Strand Releasing)… Expand

Director: Eytan Fox

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 117 min

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Elizabeth Weitzman

Fox stumbles a little at the end, which is unnecessarily exaggerated. He should have trusted his own talent - it's the attention to minor details that makes his work so memorable. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Director and co-writer Eytan Fox is going for a sexually democratic, politically aware variation on story themes familiar to "Sex and the City" viewers. (At one point Lulu is referred to as "Miss Israeli Carrie Bradshaw.") Surprisingly, it works, and the entire cast is excellent. Read full review

David Wiegand

The Bubble surprises us at every turn. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Mr. Fox may be a romantic, but he understands that love is rarely all you need. Read full review

Stephen Farber

One might question the operatic finale, which doesn't quite have the inevitability of the greatest tragic love stories. But the film's humanism gives it an overwhelming impact. To Israeli audiences, the experience must be even more explosive. Read full review

Robert Abele

It's only when The Bubble takes a swift turn into domino-tipping tragedy in the final act that a tender, fraught love story feels casually discarded in favor of something psychologically pat and ham-fistedly earth-shattering. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The comedy is without distinction and the conclusion is melodramatic. I must note that ads for the film are misleading because they give no hint of the dark side of The Bubble. Read full review

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May 16, 2018

I consider this a strong yet dark film. It takes one on an emotional ride and does so with some gritty honesty. The underlying theme (as I see it) is about embracing differences, tolerance and acceptance - both of others and of yourself. The conclusion is, well, brutal.

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IanP.

Sep 9, 2007

Good acting, but melodramatic, horrible ending, full of cliches about Jews, Arabs, gays. Tries to be everything to everyone and ends up failing at every turn. They should have focused on hipsters in Tel Aviv, instead of trying to tell a "bigger" story about the Mideast conflict.

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