Nina’s Tragedies is a 2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i dramedy film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Savi Gavison and starring Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zorer is an Israeli actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Nina’s Tragedies, Adam Resurrected, Munich, and Angels & Demons....

, Yoram Hattab, Alon Abutbul, Shmil Ben Ari

Shmil Ben Ari

Shmil Ben Ari is an Israeli actor, star of the award-winning TV series Meorav Yerushalmi , popular shows Like Zinzana, Merhav Yarkon, and Rechov Sumsum and films such as An Electric Blanket Named Moshe , Life According To Agfa, Lovesick on Nana Street, Nina's Tragedies and Yana's...

, and Anat Waxman. It won 11 Ophir Awards.

Plot summary

Fourteen-year-old Nadav is hopelessly in love with his aunt Nina (Ayelet Zurer), who has recently lost her husband (Hattab). He is caught between the two worlds of his divorced parents: his mother (Waxman) is a high-strung fashionista, while his father (Ben Ari) has recently become devoutly Orthodox and withdrawn from the family in order to join a group of Hassidic Jews who tour Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

in a van, blasting the word of God through loudspeakers.

External links

• Nick Shaeger, Slant Magazine