15 Years

I kept checking how much of this dreary, dated film there was. Not even the soft porn made it watchable. Man doesn't want to have kids. Misses him mum. Doesn't like getting old. Big deal. Yawn.

Breaking Glass Pictures (a globally-connected media company that focuses on finding cutting edge independent films in every genre from around the world) brings to DVD/VOD on 4/28/20 this LGBT film about two Israeli men, the young Dan (Udi Persi) ready for the next step in their relationship and the mature alpha partner Yoav ( Oded Leopold) who can't get over his past family and settling down demons. With most male gay themed films requiring a good female friend, the beautiful Ruti Asarsai (Alma) does a nice job working amongst the guys. Unfortunately, it is her pregnancy (from someone) that turns Yoav against Dan and all of their relationships. While the story is plausible, the English subtitles move way too fast, and director/writer Yuval Hadadi falls victim to wearing too many hats. He continually presents numerous scenes where absolutely nothing happens and/or is said, Yoav's character isn't explained clearly enough to make the viewer want to care about him, and Alma's pregnancy is quickly pushed to the backstory. The film runs 1 1/2 hours, but felt like "15 YEARS".

Interesting film though there are many questions you have to ask yourself during as you just do not know and somehow I felt the need to know some answers.

If nothing, both male figures are hot. So that is a plus :)

This film was wonderfully done. I didn't expect that the story line would be applicable to everyone... It just shows that we all experience love, rejection and insecurity in the same ways, be we straight or gay or otherwise. Yuval's writing was beautiful as was the acting, the filming and direction. The only reason I gave this film 9 stars and not 10 is that I wished that the reasons behind the main character's angst would have been more fully developed. His angst was very real though: i just wasn't sure where it came from: clearly something had gone on with his father, just wanted to know what. (But perhaps that would have taken away from the real direction of the movie's story.) Overall, the film moved really well and I was thoroughly engaged from the get go. Highly recommend it!

The film limps along using a script with minimal dialog, most of which is pointless and improvised. Character development never occurs and events pass without any explanation. It's as if the writer were telling a story that only he alone could understand. This is sad because if the theme were better fleshed out, and the script better written, the movie could have been so much more than what it was!