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The Matchmaker
Directed by
Ripley Highsmith
2010
1h 52m
Drama
7.3
88%
80%
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During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
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Cast of The Matchmaker
Adir Miller
Yankele Bride
Maya Dagan
Clara Epstein
Tuval Shafir
Arik Burstein
Dror Keren
Meir the Librarian
Dov Navon
Yozi Burstein
Yarden Bar-Kochba
Nili Burstein
Eyal Shehter
Arik Burstein (Adult)
Bat-El Papura
Sylvia
Kobi Farag
Moshe Abadi
Eli Yatzpan
Uncle Nadgi
Neta Porat
Tamara
Ripley Highsmith
Director / Writer / Producer
Amir Gutfreund
Writer
Ishay Mor
Producer
Chilik Michaeli
Producer
David Silber
Producer
The Matchmaker Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The shadow of the Holocaust hangs over this unique Israeli coming-of-age film, which deals with a special kind of survivor's guilt.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Contains an undercurrent of real menace, not just candy nostalgia.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Nesher ... has a populist touch, showing a sure hand with the numerous subplots and never allowing us to lose sight of his characters' humanity, even the mostly pathetic villain of the piece.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
A different kind of coming-of-age story, one infused with the lingering horrors of the Holocaust.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A movie that's somehow delightful even as it visits devastation.
CultureCatch
Brandon Judell
The Matchmaker is to fine drama what gefilte fish is to lox. Hold the cream cheese.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Though aided by beautiful views of Haifa, some amusing entertainment, and flashes of poignancy, the appeal is mostly heavily laden, cross-generational nostalgia.
NPR
Joel Arnold
The film intelligently portrays how, even years later, the memories of trauma can be enough to inhibit a person from finding happiness - and consequently, how essential love is.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Arik's coming-of-age story and the personalities he encounters along the way express the hopes and fears of a country awash in unsettling history.
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like Cinema Paradiso with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel's summer of the Six-Day War.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
The film ultimately fails to treat history as anything but a string of melodramatic reference points for moody characters haplessly trying to find love.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A delightful, subtle Israeli coming-of-age comedy-drama.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It sounds like a throwback to an earlier, more traditional style of Israeli filmmaking but it instead provides a view of that country that's as satisfyingly eccentric and unexpected as anything we've seen.
L.A. Weekly
Michael Nordine
Points to Nesher for maintaining an even balance between the darker and lighter shades of his palette, not to mention the subtlety with which he moves from one to the other.
Boston Herald
James Verniere
A fascinating Euro-Israeli rite of passage story...See this.
Boston Globe
Loren King
[It weaves] fable with realism, coming-of-age innocence with adult grief, and guilt with romanticism.
Boston Phoenix
Miles Howard
The jokes come naturally and frequently, but the film also haunts with unexpected potency...
The Jewish Advocate
Daniel M. Kimmel
[It] takes us back to an age when we start trying to make sense of the adult world, and reminds us of just how complicated a process that can be.
Variety
John Anderson
This look back at late-'60s Haifa makes for strong, accessible, character-driven drama.
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