The Last Winter

I have a very vague memory of seeing this movie on a commercial channel in, I think, 1992. I've always had a thing for Kathleen Quinlan, and when I saw the an ad, I figured why not.

I have only the blurriest recollection of the Last Winter. Yom Kippur war. Two gals looking for their missing-in-action husbands. The two woman skinny-dipping. Edited-for-television. Wishing I could see Quinlan's butt. Hint of a lesbian relationship between the two wives?

I think.

Yet, with all the blur, I have a feeling it was a good movie, that there was a real emotional tension for the two women hoping, praying for the homecoming.

I can't even remember how the movie turns out, but I do have a feeling that a recommendation is in order.

US-Israel co-production through TriStar concerns two lonely women whose husbands are engaged in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 finding each other and becoming friends. That war, a short-lived armed conflict fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria, is basically used here as the backdrop to an almost-lesbian affair between leads Kathleen Quinlan and Yona Elian. Director Riki Shelach Nissimoff managed to get his two actresses out of their clothes and, at one point, into the same bed--but it's just a tease. I assume the point of all this is: with men out of the picture, women will comfort one another! It hardly makes for much of a film. NO STARS from ****