Friday, May 2, 2014

Lost Islands 2008


Lost Islands


    The Levy's are a large family of eight and the year is 1980 is Israel.  The father lectures on fulfilling dreams and the mother preaches family loyalty.  There are fraternal twin boys in the family and they both like Neta, a new girl in town.  Ofer, one of the twins, wants to go into an elite commando unit of the Israeli Army but the father has an unfortunate car accident and he’s paralyzed.  Ofer decides to stay home and help with his care.  Erez, the other twin is drafted into the unit Ofer dreamed of joining.  Ofer lets Neta go and he starts dating Erez’s former girlfriend.  The father, Ofer, Erez, Neta and Erez’s former girlfriend are all mixed up.
     It is interesting to seen an Israeli family in 1980, they watch the program Lost Islands every summer on TV together.  The twins are really into the film Aquarius and the songs.  Somewhat complicated keeping track of all the characters including a friend who is almost a family member.  3* (This movie is OK) 
103 min, Drama directed by Reshef Levy with Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shmil Ben Ari, Orly Silbersatz Banai, Yuval Scharf, Ofer Shecter, Pini Tavger, Michal Levi, Yigal Adika, Gilat Ankori.
Note:  Imdb 7.3 out of 10, 74% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 5* with one review.

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