The Lover

Original title: Ha-Me'ahev

1985
R
1h 30m

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Michal Bat-Adam and Yehoram Gaon in The Lover (1985)

Gabriel makes arrangement with garage-owner Adam to pay for repairs to his grandmother's car by giving his depressed wife French lessons. But the relationship goes beyond that of teacher and... Read allGabriel makes arrangement with garage-owner Adam to pay for repairs to his grandmother's car by giving his depressed wife French lessons. But the relationship goes beyond that of teacher and pupil as a passionate love affair develops.Gabriel makes arrangement with garage-owner Adam to pay for repairs to his grandmother's car by giving his depressed wife French lessons. But the relationship goes beyond that of teacher and pupil as a passionate love affair develops.

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First film for actress Avigail Ariely.

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Version of L'amante perduto (1999)

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3/10

Maybe okay if you've read the book

This is from the novel _The Lover_ by A.B. Yehoshua, not by Marguerite Duras. Bat-Adam's movie is a sequence of nicely photographed, gamely acted scenes that are deprived of the logic and momentum that the novel gives them. In a unique stroke of miscasting, Bat-Adam the director gives herself the role of a woman who in the novel is motivated by the loss of her youth and attractiveness. Unfortunately, Bat-Adam doesn't know how to be unbeautiful. Another good actor, Yehoram Gaon, is lost in the male lead because his motivation too is left behind on the pages of the novel. What is left is like a series of well-drawn illustrations bereft of text.