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Late Marriage
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0717119874346
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Yorker Video
Languages: Georgian (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Hebrew (Published),
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
MPN: D87403D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
This remarkable Israeli movie starts as a sweet romantic comedy: unmarried at 31, Zaza is an embarrassment to his family. Though they parade him past young, attractive, and eligible girls, he resists them all--because Zaza already has a secret love affair with Judith, a divorcée. Zaza knows his parents would never accept Judith; but when his parents find out, the results are worse than either of them ever expected, leading to a harrowing and sad conclusion. Late Marriage has an amazing richness of character and honesty about their behavior. Every turn of the story is full of lively, unexpected details; there's not a predictable moment in the entire movie. The extensive sex scene between Zaza and Judith has an intimacy and dimension unseen in American movies. Quite simply, one of the best movies of 2001. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A different look on love and marriage
This film should be mandatory for watching by any student of anthropology, or women studies. Although it is made in Israel, it is unique to certain parts of the world where partiarchal society is still having stronghold. Main character, a single man of 31 is being forced by his parents to find a wife and marry. What they do not know is that he has an affair with a woman who is: a) older than him, b) she is divorced and c) has a child from previous relationship. Can this tripple whammy go against ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Israeli comedy
One might have thought that arranged marriages are a thing of the past among Israeli Jews. But according to this bittersweet comedy, the tradition is alive and well, at least among the conservative Georgian Jewish community in Israel the movie is set on (director Kashashivili belongs to that community). The protagonist of the movie is Zaza, an unmarried man in his early thirties and graduate student in philosophy (played by the fine actor Lior Ashkenazi, who starred as the brutal Mossad agent in another ... Read More
Rating: - Much Better Than Expected
A real surprise of a film, very watchable and interesting. The lead actors are attractive and competent. Even the dog "Mouki" can steal a scene!
Rating: - I could imagine that this has happen to A LOT of people.
I too have no idea as to why others would compare this film to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Monsoon Wedding." It doesn't even come close to this film. "Late Marriage" may appear as an ethnic comedy at first but the film gradually grows to a melancholic drama, focusing on the main problem of the new generation of Georgian individuals - the dualism between their traditions and between their desires to join the modern society. Zaza (Lior Ashkenzai), who reflects this problem well, is an educated PhD. and ... Read More
Rating:  - Zaza not good enough for Judith
One aspect of this excellent movie that hasn't really been mentioned here is the fact that Zaza's mother and father did in fact indicate to each other that they would accept Judith if they had to, without carrying out their threats to cut off their son. Zaza may love Judith, but he turns out to be the weak, dependent boy his parents think him to be, and he won't make a stand for the woman he loves. For all their name-calling and superior attitude toward Judith, she turns out to be too good for Zaza and ... Read More
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