Wedding Doll

Name: Wedding Doll
Genre: Drama
Released: April 15, 2016
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Assi Levy, Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf

2016

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 15, 2016 | Not Rated

Starring: Assi Levy, Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf

Summary: Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence, and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of theHagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence, and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah's life and jeopardizes Hagit's love story.… Expand

Director: Nitzan Giladi

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Sheri Linden

Apr 14, 2016

In his first narrative feature, documentarian Nitzan Gilady demonstrates an assured grasp of visual storytelling, using a stunningly rugged desert setting that’s as much a character as the film’s perpetually sunny, intellectually challenged 24-year-old and her world-weary mother. Read full review

Ben Nicholson

Apr 14, 2016

Wedding Doll may be a small film, but it's deftly executed and built on two remarkable leading performances. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Apr 14, 2016

The bittersweet and gently moving Wedding Doll sidesteps so many of the traps it sets for itself because writer-director Nitzan Gilady is less interested in the purity of his heroine than he is in what it reveals from within the people around her. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Apr 14, 2016

Though the darker tonal shift toward the end is a bit jarring, director/scenarist Gilady demonstrates a deft, confident hand with the storytelling, cast and general packaging, and makes assertive use of the dramatic desert setting. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Apr 14, 2016

It is a sad little tale but one that manages to find notes of hope amongst the setbacks and rejections of everyday life. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Apr 15, 2016

I suppose the fact that I was affected as I was by Wedding Doll is testimony to its emotional effectiveness. But while Hagit is able to crack a smile at the movie’s end, I feel a pall wrapping around me every time I contemplate her predicament, or the predicament of her real-life models. Read full review

The Film Stage Michael Snydel

Apr 14, 2016

There’s a potentially good story to be mined here, probably most likely with the mother, but every time it starts to find fertile emotional ground, it can’t help but become distracted and search for another surface. Read full review

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