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• REVIEW: SOULFUL ‘SUBLET’ FDS WISDOM A GAY TRAVEL JOURNALIST’S VIS TO TEL AVIV
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• A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS

REVIEW: SOULFUL ‘SUBLET’ FDS WISDOM A GAY TRAVEL JOURNALIST’S VIS TO TEL AVIV

His 2006 film “The Bubble” also explor a gay relatnship, this time across the Israeli-Paltian divi. Unlike “Yossi & Jagger” and “The Bubble, ” the aspects of gay inty that have historilly anchored queer movi — g out and societal rejectn — are not the foc of the plot here.

Instead, Fox has crafted a pensive, dialogue-driven movie about different mos of movg through the world as a gay Jewish man: Amerin and Israeli, early 20s and middle age.

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When he began wrg “Sublet, ” he said, “I had jt turned 50 and I was thkg, how did I e to be the man that I am: Jewish, Israeli, gay, filmmaker, hband to my hband, childls? Fox channeled his mgs on agg as a gay Jewish Israeli to the rapport between his two leads, who bate each other on their rpective plac wh the untry and the Jewish world. Tomer also rebels agast more “tradnal” mols of gayns a challenge to Michael’s liftyle.

“They knew wasn’t polilly rrect to say they wouldn’t support a gay film, ” he said. “If you had told me the early ’80s growg up Jesalem that one day we’d have openly gay members of Knset — that we’d have a transgenr woman as a referee the tough, macho world of Israeli soccer — I wouldn’t have believed you, ” he said. “I n unrstand people accg the Israeli ernment of g my films for pkwashg — sayg we’re so wonrful, we have a gay film director, gay films, everythg you n dream of, so people don’t ask qutns about the Paltians, ” he said.

“But that don’t take away om the fact that Israel, and Tel Aviv more specifilly, have bee the most lovg and acceptg ci for the gay muny.

A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS

Bee moviegog rri risks durg this time, we remd rears to follow health and safety guil as outled by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and lol health Fox’s “Sublet” is a lovely and wistful drama about what fleetgly bds two gay men — one Amerin, one Israeli — spe, or maybe bee of, their generatnal differenc.

But Michael eventually cis to stay and, after a day, v the fancially strapped Tomer to move back — exchange for his tour gui follows is ls an exploratn of Tel Aviv life (though we get a nice sense of the vibrant cy) and more an timate look at the stark ntrast between Tomer’s ee-spired, mment-averse 20-somethg and the more rtraed Michael, a New Yorker of a certa age who’s survived the AIDS epimic, homophobia and activism and has settled to a seemgly quiet, rigned life wh his hband, David (Peter Spears) beneath one-time novelist Michael’s mellow exterr, he’s hnted by a recent tragedy and a current dispute wh David, who wants to expand their fay spe a key unrlyg issue. Director Fox has prevly examed facets of Israeli gay life such featur as “Yossi and Jagger, ” s sequel, “Yossi, ” and “The Bubble. “The Bubble, ” “Walk on Water, ” and “Yossi and Jagger” director Eytan Fox returns to the terra of gay trospective dramas wh the new film “Sublet, ” which opens on June 11 theaters om Greenwich Entertament.

IndieWire’s Eric Kohn reviewed the film posively last year when premiered virtually as part of the shuttered Tribe Film Ftival: “Wh ‘Sublet, ’ Fox ntu this exploratn by wing his lens, wh an timate look at the ntrastg valu of gay men om different generatns that the specifics of Israeli culture to explore more universal ias.

A drama centered on the love affair between two men on oppose sis of the Mid-East nflict: Paltian stunt Nimer and Roy, an Israeli productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview watchg dozens of gay themed films, I n easily spot a daisy among the grass. This movie has wrg my sens so much about LIVES of homosexuals untry wh thls views of gay people. I would never look at gay movi aga siarly after watchg this.

Brilliant tle, amazg actors, rivetg choice of hand-held mera an unrgraduate this on gay people, I know gay rights are non-existence Middle East, and other Arab/Mlim untri, but I have never walked, and looked, and be part of on' life that this film has ma me. For stance, 2021, the stud fed ahead wh the MTV Europe Mic Awards Hungary spe lol laws banng ntent featurg gay people on primetime TV. Cast & crewUser reviewsOrigal tle: Ezrah Mudag20221h 22mCenters around Ben, a polilly liberal, gay man who tri to improve his neighborhood the slums of south Tel Aviv by plantg a tree on his street.

Centers around Ben, a polilly liberal, gay man who tri to improve his neighborhood the slums of south Tel Aviv by plantg a tree on his street. Centers around Ben, a polilly liberal, gay man who tri to improve his neighborhood the slums of south Tel Aviv by plantg a tree on his productn, box office & pany Vios2More like thisReview Thoughtful But Could Have Been StrongerA sire for creatg surroundgs that are nice, tidy and pleasant is certaly ldable, but what if that drive for priste perfectn go south, wh the emergence of unexpected circumstanc and nsequenc that serly unrcut such tentns? Such is the se when a gay uple, Ben (Shlomi Bertonov) and Raz (Ariel Wolf), move to a Tel Aviv neighborhood jt begng the procs of gentrifitn.

Israel is whout a doubt the bt untry the Middle East for gay and lbian dividuals to live. Gay people n serve openly the Israeli ary. So should e as no surprise that Israel’s pal of ol, Tel Aviv, where 25% of the populatn is timated to be LGBT, has gaed an ternatnal reputatn as one of the world’s top statns for gay men.

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