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EYES WIDE OPEN (EINAYM PKUHOT)

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EYES WIDE OPEN (EINAYM PKUHOT)

Dir: Haim Tabakman, Israel, 2009, 109 min, 109min
Hebrew with English subtitles
Genre: Drama, Foreign Language, Romance
Identity: Gay

Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. When his father dies, it’s his responsibility to run the family butcher shop and in need of assistance he advertises for some help. Enter Ezri, a handsome 22-year-old student, who catches Aaron’s eye and is hired. Ezri has travelled to Jerusalem to see an ex-boyfriend, but his former lover wants nothing to do with him.

Homeless, Ezri is offered the room above the shop to stay in until he can find accommodation. The two men work in close quarters and their mutual attraction is palpable. Before long they begin an affair, using the upstairs room for their clandestine meetings. However, Rivka suspects her husband of wrongdoing, and word starts to spread of their taboo behaviour. Aaron has the most to lose from the affair, but with his eyes wide open, he continues on, even with the threat of the ‘morality police’ – a dangerous and violent group who enforces their ‘laws’ away from the police - around every corner. Aaron welcomes Ezri into his life and experiences an awakening, but is it religious or sexual, or both, and at what cost?

This debut feature from Haim Tabakman is a powerful and emotionally charged film, led by two stunning performances: famous Israeli singer and actor Ran Danker plays Ezri, whose seductive looks shakes up the formerly sedate life of Aaron; and Zohar Strauss, who won the Best Actor award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, plays Aaron, whose deep, soulful eyes express all the pain and longing, relief and anxiety, that he feels. (PT)

Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2009
Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival 2009
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