Anat Waxman Movies
- 2007
A melancholy Israeli flight attendant finds new meaning in life on her quest to reunite a six year-old Chinese boy nicknamed Noodle with his missing mother. Miri (Mili Avital) is a two-time war widow who has long since lost her lust for life and spends most days simply going through the motions. Miri lives with her sister Gila (Anat Waxman), who is currently wrestling with the troublesome prospect of ending her marriage to her husband Izzy (Alon Aboutboul). One day, upon returning home from work, Miri is recruited by the family's Chinese housekeeper (Vicky Lyn) to watch her young son as she runs an important errand. When the housekeeper mysteriously fails to return, however, Miri and her trusty airline coworkers make it their mission on life to reunite mother and son though whatever means possible. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mili Avital, Boaqi Chen, (more)
Israeli filmmaker Savi Gabizon directs the tragi-comic drama Ha-Asonot Shel Nina, also released as Nina's Tragedies (A Very Sad Comedy). Teenaged boy Nadav (Aviv Elkabeth) is secretly in love with his beautiful Aunt Nina (Ayelet Zurer). When her husband dies and his parents get divorced, Nadav is more than willing to go live with her. However, many strange things start to happen just after he arrives. Nadav's estranged father (Yoram Hattab) suddenly wants to reconnect with him after many years. Also, the mourning Nina is pursued by a photographer named Avinoam (Alon Aboutbul). Nina's Tragedies won several awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival before its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ayelet Zurer, Yoram Hatav, (more)
Working from a script by Noa Grinberg, Shahar Rosen's Round Trip stars Anat Waxman as Nurit, a bus driver who becomes so dissatisfied with her dead-end marriage that she takes her two children and moves to Tel Aviv. She soon learns that even though she has gotten away from her husband, her life is no more fulfilling. One day, Nurit hires Nigerian Mushidi (Nthati Moshesh) as a maid. Soon the pair become friends -- and then something more. Their new relationship causes problems between Nurit and her family. Round Trip was screened at the 2003 Israel Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anat Waxman, Nthati Moshesh, (more)
- 1993
Miki (Hagit Dasberg) is a teen-aged musician who has lived with her parents in Israel for as long as she could stand to. Her mother is a highly neurotic Holocaust survivor who is trying to live out her dreams and disappointments through Miki. Her father is an essentially passive man who hasn't the backbone or the insight to provide her with a buffer from her mother. Eventually, she has had enough, and movs into a working-class apartment house as she attempts to make a go of it as a musician. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gedalia Besser
The stories of three Israeli women in varying stages of desperation and hysteria are depicted in this anthology. The first segment, "Sharona Honey," closely follows the difficulties suffered by a particularly lovely woman who is being ardently pursued by a quartet of men, all of whom want her to bear their child - none of them with the slightest interest in discovering who she is. In "Operation Cat," a recently separated woman frantically tries to get the authorities to remove the obstacles which prevent a kitten from being rescued from a sewer. "Divorce" shows just how far an aggrieved policewoman will go to prevent her husband from skipping out of the country without giving her a divorce. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yaël Abecassis, Ruthi Goldberg, (more)
- 1987
Like many another young Israeli, Rafi never gave much thought to the fact that when he reached a certain age, he would be expected to serve in the Israeli Army and that he would experience active duty in combat. It certainly never occurred to him that he might be injured, and if it did, it never occurred to him that he would be crippled, as he was. Now he must try to learn to cope with a life which is vastly different from anything he ever imagined, and at first he has nothing but bitterness. An older veteran tries to help him learn to cope, and his relatives work hard to adjust as well. However, only his sister-in-law Maya seems to understand his state of mind and doesn't freak out at his easily provoked displays of temper. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anat Waxman, Liora Grossman, (more)
- 1986
This comedy about the "sanity" of those in an asylum focuses on popular Israeli comic Seffi Rivlin, who plays a bank manager who discovers that the inmates of a mental institution are running a counterfeiting operation from the basement of their hospital. Actors exaggerate their portrayals of the patients, and the plot zooms off in several directions at once. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Seffi Rivlin, Arik Lavie, (more)
