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

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

Movi|‘Sublet’ Review: A Ls-Than-Intrepid Traveler ADVERTISEMENTA stra-laced fictnal New York Tim wrer meets a eewheelg younger man this low-key gay romance om Miller/Greenwich EntertamentSubletDirected by Eytan FoxComedy, Drama, Romance1h 29mAn unrstated gay romance, “Sublet” follows a fictnal middle-aged New York Tim travel wrer assigned to disver what’s what Tel Aviv over the urse of five days. The Israeli director Eytan Fox offers sights to two generatns of gay men that at tim n seem superficial. 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. A middle-aged gay Amerin travel wrer rents an apartment Tel Aviv om a laid-back film stunt Eytan Fox’s formulaic dience-pleaser, “Sublet. ” Venturg ever so discreetly to the kd of darker matns that marked his bt-known films (“Yossi & Jagger, ” “Walk on Water”), Fox offers no surpris this too-neatly packaged midlife-crisis story refully signed to ter to an olr gay mographic.

The filmmaker’s 2002 “Yossi & Jagger, ” which tracked a doomed gay romance among two soldiers, dove headlong to a society steeped tough masculy and nservatism at odds wh the sensivy and dividualism of a new generatn.

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. Hickey is at once heartbreakg and a source of adpan charm as he wrtl wh how much to give himself over to an unexpected journey, while followg Tomer om an avant gar dance performance to a gay bar filled wh MDMA and an awkward enunter wh Israel’s versn of Grdr. “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. Veteran Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox’s outstandg new feature Sublet, -wrten wh Itay Segal, opens wh the arrival of a jetlagged and disorientated fifty somethg gay man, Michael (The Inherance’s John Benjam Hickey) to btlg Tel Aviv. While Michael is a gay intifyg man who has been nsirg havg children wh his hband, Tomer is far more ee-spired wh his sexualy, and although he the Israeli hookup app Atraf to meet men, he also mentns sleepg wh women.

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PROMOTED Watch Now SynopsisA gay New York Tim travel wrer to Tel Aviv after sufferg a tragedy. 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. 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. He's also unwillg to nsir or ntemplate those the gay movement who me before him, like Michael, and paved the way for his current liftyle. At first, Michael isn’t certa if Tomar is even gay or not (though the poster for the particular “Nightmare on Elm Street” sequel hangg the apartment should have been a clue) but probably will not e as a surprise to most viewers that somethg do eventually arise, although they may be surprised by the gree that sock puppetry is volved.

”Directed and -wrten by Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox, whose films often al wh gay them, “Sublet” feels like ’s settg self up, jt a ltle b, as a same-sex versn of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

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