News & Updates: Israeli comedy, “Forgiveness,” shows there CAN be honor, even redemption, among thieves
“Forgiveness,” the latest movie by Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon, the creators of “Maktub,” one of the most commercially successful movies in Israeli history, is a light-hearted, silly caper/comedy with dramatic and sentimental undertones.
Stars of Israeli “Forgiveness” “Mechilah” Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, producer Adar Shafran at Israel Film Fest
In short, it’s the kind of movie critics tend to hate and audiences tend to love. As the late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael once said, a lot of movie reviewers act as if they wish they could see The Seventh Seal (a heavy film about death and redemption by Ingmar Bergman) every day. Forgiveness doesn’t aspire to be anything more than a very Israeli story of two shlubby guys who ruin each other’s lives, drive each other crazy and forgive each other – and get into a lot of trouble along the way.
