VE LAKACHTA LECHA ISHA
TO TAKE A WIFE
Co-directed by Shlomi Elkabetz and his sister Ronit, To Take A Wife is a haunting, claustrophobic portrait of a loveless marriage held together in a vice of religious and social convention. In the confines of a small apartment building in Haifa, 1979, Vivian, an independent Moroccan Jewish woman, is surrounded by men from her family and community who desperately try to convince her that she doesnt need the divorce from her traditionalist husband Elyahoo that she craves. Vivian stays, but so does her pained expression. She attends to the demands of her four children, acts as hairdresser for friends and neighbours in her apartment building, and has cold, confrontational conversations with Elyahoo. When an old lover calls her, there is a suggestion she may escape the bland authority of her husband and the Israeli patriarchal society. Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz not only tell the story of their mother but with an emotional sincerity reminiscent of John Cassavetes, To Take A Wife is a startling, quietly devastating melodrama. (Michael Hayden)
- Ronit Elkabetz - Vivian
- Simon Abkarian - Elyahoo
- Gilbert Melki - Albert
- Sulika Kadosh - Memé
- Dalia Malka Beger - Dona
- Kobi Regev - Eviatar
- Omer Moshkovitz - Gavriel
- Yam Eitan - Leor
- Shlomi Elkabetz
- Ronit Elkabetz
- Yaron Scharf
- Yohai Moshe
- Joelle Alexis
- Michel Korb
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