Sharon Alexander Movies

A man looking to put his life back together finds himself caring for his mother in her final days in this emotional drama. Theatrical director Yehuda (Sharon Alexander) has reached an impasse in life after his relationship with his girlfriend collapses and his most recent play is a resounding flop. Yehuda decides to leave his adopted home in Paris and return to his birthplace in Israel, where he spends time with his mother (Orna Porat). Mother's health has been steadily failing, and her doctor (Yosi Segal) informs Yehuda that his previous diagnosis of her condition was not correct -- Mother has advanced cancer, and only a short time left to live. Not wanting to panic her in her last days, Yehuda opts to keep Mother's cancer a secret. Yehuda stays with Mother and cares for her, but when his sister Zillinka (Smadar Killtchinski) arrives, she's horrified at the decline in her health, and when Yehuda tells Zillinka that Mother has cancer, she's outraged at her brother's subterfuge, deciding that Mother must know the truth about her illness. Shkarim Levanim was the first feature film from director and screenwriter Itzhak Rubin. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The debut film from Toronto-born Israeli theatre director/writer Jonathan Sagall, who played a supporting role in Shindler's List, Urban Feel focuses on a modern couple (Played by top Israeli actors Dafna Rechtner and Scharonn Alexander) and their rocky relationship. Robby is an accountant and a hypochondriac, Eva works in a shop specializing in erotic toys for women, and they have an eight-year-old son named Jonah. The routine of daily life is disrupted by the sudden appearance of the 'catalyzing stranger,' the charming and slightly alcoholic Emanuel (no other that the director Jonathan Sagall himself), who was Eva's childhood sweetheart and also an old buddy of Robby. Emanuel's influence is felt strongly by all members of the household, including little Jonah, whom he teaches to be tough on the street. But the most drastic change is in Eva, whose sexual feelings are rekindled. After the drunken intrusion of Emanuel into her bed one night, Eva lands in an anonymous sex club. Robby's reaction is to plunge into a crazy affair with a woman named Nelly, who regularly places ads in the lonely hearts columns of newspapers and is somewhat involved with an aging theatre director. In the meantime, the audience is supposed to wonder, who is the real father of Jonah, Robby, or Emanuel? The film has pretensions of a global late-1990's zeitgeist, engulfing characters that have stopped caring; one character, Asi, walks through a terrorist bomb attack, but is still preoccupied by something to do with his love life. It is also about post-modern man's yearning for love beyond sex. The problem is all this has already been said (and shown) many times before, and Urban Feel has nothing new or original to add. At its best, it is a bittersweet comedy with some clever dialogue. The film competed at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide

Nina (Fanny Ardant) is a French concert pianist, Ilan (Sharon Alexander) is an Israeli computer specialist visiting Paris. A romance springs up between them, and they get married. Not long afterward, Ilan is called into the Israeli army to serve his obligatory tour of duty. Things are heating up with Saddam Hussein (it is just before the Gulf War), who has just invaded Kuwait. Nina receives a call from the military informing her that her husband was wounded in combat. She rushes to his side and soon discovers that he was wounded by Israeli soldiers while he was in the process of deserting his post. It is clear from his own zombie-fied behavior that this allegation is true. Despite this horrifying revelation, she still loves him, but becomes increasingly estranged from the society around her because she feels shunned. On top of all this, she must soon make her concert debut with the Israel Philharmonic. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Jonathan is an Israeli, he is seventeen, and he thinks it is rather late in the day for him to find his true love. He also happens to be homosexual. He shares his tiny apartment with a muscular buddy and has developed strong feelings for a substantially older upstairs neighbor who is living with his mother, a thirtyish lad who has recently returned from New York. The boy doesn't know it, but his new friend is quite ill (possibly from AIDS). ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this drama, Rafa (Sharon Alexander), an Israeli military policeman, has been sent by headquarters to investigate irregularities in the reporting of the death of an Arab murder suspect. When he gets to the West Bank military camp to investigate, he finds that the Israeli officer the Arab suspect was accused of killing was an old schoolmate of his. And the officer who openly admits killing the suspect for "attempting to escape interrogation" is yet another old school friend. It is clear that the murder suspect was killed by Rafa's friend in order to ensure that justice was personally served for the murder of the Israeli officer, and this action was not only illegal but immoral. On the other hand, Rafa is just as clearly expected to let the whole thing slide, because the offending officer is One Of Us. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide