Obsession

2011
6.1| 1h34m| en
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Raymond Amsalem embodies the image of a weak and submissive woman, whose husband is a drinker and gambler and who cheats on her with other women. Her son is serving in the IDF and refrained from returning home for holidays, her daughter ran away, and the little boy is watching his family collapse into itself.

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Riki Shelach Productions

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Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
sasa-91508 Director Nissim NotrIKa. The film is charming and exciting and makes some crying. More than recommended for viewing. And as always the diamond "Tarantino son of a bitch", "Nissim NORTIKA is a son of a bitch." In a good and empowering sense of a word. In short, the film wins the 10/10 rating.
Nozz Like Truffaut's "Story of Adele H," this is a portrait of a woman who attains a kind of spiritual nobility through the intensity of her love for a man although the man happens to be worthless. To dismiss her situation with a single word, as the English title "Obsession" does, is to make the film seem unnecessary-- not that the Hebrew title, which translates as "Fragments of Love," makes it sound like much more than an a lowbrow weeper. Actually it is both a character study and a period piece. The setting is Jerusalem, 1968, and a lot of authentic props are around although anachronisms are there too if you look hard enough. (Women didn't wear more than one earring per ear in 1968.) The people with whom the heroine interacts are a colorful lot albeit one- dimensional, and we get to see some folk magic and hear Hebrew spiced with Ladino and Arabic. One thing we don't get is a strong sense of place, because without a big budget, one can maintain a period look in only a small shooting area. The actress on whom everything depends, Reymond Amsalem, holds attention every moment; in recent years she's been a reliable asset in quite a few of the best Israeli films.

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