Photo: 'Kiss Me Kosher'/ ‘Kiss Me Kosher’, the directorial debut of Venezuela-born, Israel-raised, German-based director Shirel Peleg, is a film with layers. On its surface, the film is a cute rom-com about an Israeli woman and a German woman getting ready to marry. More intriguingly, the film is international relations, writ small. Shira (Moran Rosenblatt) and Maria (Luise Wolfram), already facing anti-gay discrimination from Israel’s conservatives, find that the sexual orientation controversy pales in comparison to the wounds of the Holocaust, still nursed generations later: Maria, by virtue of being a non-Jewish German, is seen by some as being too biologically similar to a Nazi for comfort. To complicate matters further, Shira’s grandmother Berta (Rivka Michaeli), one of the most vocal critics of Shira’s choice of bride, herself is clandestinely involved with her Palestinian Arab neighbor Ibrahim (Salim Dau). The whole thing is a powderkeg,...
- 2/21/2021
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Peleg’s debut feature, shot in Tel Aviv earlier this year, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders. With dialogue in four languages, Shirel Peleg’s debut feature, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders, showing what happens when two generations of Israeli women, a niece and a grandmother, fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, respectively. With a script written by Peleg herself, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders, revolving around a subversive love story between clashing cultures and families. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos ensues. What happens to lovers who don't fit but do belong together? The cast of the upcoming feature includes Moran Rosenblatt,Luise Wolfram, Juliane Köhler, Bernhard Schütz, Rivka Michaeli, Salim Daw, Irit Kaplan, Eyal...
- 10/24/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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