Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84491 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-03-17
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
• Original language: Hebrew
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Customer Reviews

Dramatically Droll
"Aviva, My Love"

Dramatically Droll

Amos Lassen

Aviva is a hard working cook in a hotel in Tiberias, Israel and is on of finding greatness. She introduced to Oded, a novelist who vows to help her achieve the greatness she desires. However Aviva's journey to greatness has an effect on her and her family and even worse--Aviva discovers that Oded has other plans for her and her world falls apart.
The film reflects the growing gaps in Israeli society and even though it is totally predictable there are some very funny moments in it. The story is told from the woman's (Aviva) perspective and the director, it seems to me, deliberately portrays the men to be weak and to act like fools so as to give a faux-feminist slant to the film and it does not work. He uses offensive stereotyping very much like what the women's movement opposes.
Aviva's life was a mess before Oded--her husband was unemployed, her children are unagreeable, her mother is suicidal, her job is demanding. Aviva wants to be a creative writer and scribbles down her thoughts. Aviva has little money and she faces constant indignities. Asi Levy is Aviva and she is perfect. Her introduction to Oded Zar (Sasson Gabai) seems to bring her hope even though Oded has not published anything in quite a while. He pretends to tutor her because he wants to publish her stories under his own name. There is a lot of black humor and this social drama explores sexual politics. "Aviva, My Love" is the winner of many awards including six Israeli Oscars.