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Snails in the Rain

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5.8/10 • 41

2013-06-201h 22m

Drama

My beloved Boaz...

Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.

Directors
Yariv Mozer
Writters
Yariv Mozer

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  1. Yoav Reuveni

    Yoav Reuveni

    Boaz

  2. Moran Rosenblatt

    Moran Rosenblatt

    Noa

  3. Yariv Mozer

    Yariv Mozer

    Prof. Richlin

  4. Yehuda Nahari

    Yehuda Nahari

    Nir

  5. Hava Ortman

    Hava Ortman

    Ruth

  6. Eyal Cohen

    Eyal Cohen

    The mechanic

  7. Eran Lev

    Eran Lev

    Army soldier

  8. Lior Soroka

    Lior Soroka

    Student at the library

  9. Eyal Kentov

    Eyal Kentov

    Guy at the pool

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CinemaSerf

Aug 29, 2022

5/10

"Boaz" (Yoav Reuveni) is the deliciously hunky boyfriend of "Noa" (Moran Rosenblatt) living an apparently happy life together. Not long into this rather pedestrian drama, though, we discover that he has a bit of PTSD from his time doing National Service in his native Israel, and that during that time he also had a bit of bi-curiosity. Back to current day, it seems that "Boaz" is having to wrestle more and more with his increasingly encroaching desires for men... What is fuelling this change? Well he is awaiting an important letter from university so is regularly checking his PO box. Contained within, though, are a series of love letters from an unknown male suitor who in the most benign and gentle of fashions commences to wreak havoc with this young man's relationship. For the most part this just muddles along, but there is one scene of sexual violence (towards his girlfriend) that I though not just unnecessary to the plot development, but it also rendered much of the ostensibly potent conclusion to the film seriously implausible. Indeed, by the end I found myself thinking that his attractiveness was entirely skin deep! There isn't really much dialogue to speak of, and the time-shifted narrative is all just a bit weak and feeble. The title doesn't do it much favours really, either and were it not for the fact that he an handsome fella to watch on screen - there are plenty of shower and sex scenes - I am not sure I would have bothered seeing it through.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Hebrew
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Keywords
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