Eyes Wide Open Articles

Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, Eyes Wide Open is a gay love story set in Jerusalem’s "ultra-orthodox" Jewish community — in other words, in a society in which homosexuality is anything but acceptable. Here’s the synopsis from the Eyes Wide Open press release: "Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father [...]

Teens go wild in Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary; gay love set against a background of religious ardor in Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open Swedish Blockbuster THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Wins at Palm Springs Festival Another winner at the 2010 Palm Springs Film Festival was Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary, Sweden’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The quirky film set during the Swedish [...]

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected ‘usual suspects’ outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]