The Bubble
2006-Israel-Drama
PLOT DESCRIPTION Director
Eytan Fox bursts the idyllic bubble of cosmopolitan Tel Aviv with this
though-provoking meditation on cultural relations concerning a brooding
Israeli reserve soldier who enters into a passionate same-sex affair
with an intense Palestinian man. Noam (Ohad Knoller) shares his posh
Tel Aviv apartment with progressive-minded twenty-something Lulu
(Daniella Wircer) and flamboyant café owner Yali (Alon Friedmann). It
was during checkpoint duty that Noam first made the acquaintance of
intense and handsome Palestinian Ashraf (Yousef "Joe" Sweid). Though
their initial meeting was someone harried as Ashraf struggled to aid a
woman who was forced to give birth at the roadside, a connection was
formed and Ashraf soon comes knocking on Noam's door. In the weeks that
follow the pair embark on an intense love affair and the amiable Ashraf
forms a fast bond with Lulu and Yali. But life in Tel Aviv couldn't be
more different from life in nearby occupied Palestine, and as the
reality of the violence that surrounds them slowly envelopes them, Noam
and Ashraf find that their heated affair was doomed from the moment
they locked eyes. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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