WALK ON WATER d: Eytan Fox
Walk on Water (2004)
Direction: Eytan Fox. Screenplay: Gal Uchovsky. Cast: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Carola Regnier, Hanns Zischler, Yousef ‘Joe’ Sweid
REVENGE IS BITTER
Walk on Water is a flawed but intriguing tale of revenge, guilt, and redemption. In the film, a Mossad agent (Lior Ashkenazi) pretends to be a tour guide to a gay German tourist (Knut Berger) in order to find the whereabouts of the tourist’s Nazi grandfather.
Problems with the screenplay — including an unconvincing, neatly tied happy ending — and director Eytan Fox’s overuse of pop tunes in the soundtrack are to a large extent smoothed over by the three leads’ solid performances and by Fox’s intelligent use of weather and locations to convey the characters’ moods. Walk on Water succeeds despite its overly well-intentioned self.
Addendum: Walk on Water has become the highest-grossing Israeli motion picture at the U.S. box office.
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