Virgil Films &
Entertainment has selected Mar. 18 as the DVD debut date for director Avi
Nesher’s neo-noir thriller, The
Wonders.
Based loosely on actual
events, we are introduced to a “graffiti” tagger and part time bartender living
in Jerusalem named Arnav (Ori Hizkiah), who gets caught up in what appears to
be a hostage/kidnapping “thing.”
As the film unfolds it
turns out to be much, much more than that … at least a kidnapping and hostage
situation you can understand. With this
one, you are never really sure what is going on.
The victim is Rabbi Knafo
(Yehuda Levi), a mystical holy man with, what some believe, a direct connection
to God. However, we soon learn that
Kanfo has been using his “powers” for other purposes (think: seduction).
When Arnav, who has been
out tagging spots (rabbits as art, go figure) to catch his ex-girlfiend’s
attention, comes across the hideout the easy thing for him to do would be to
call the cops. Instead, he gets sucked
in by a shady private eye named Jacob Gittes (Adir Miller), who recruits him to
keeps tabs on the comings and goings at the place where Rabbi Knafo is being
held (which just happens to be across from his less-than-tidy digs).
Throw in a couple of
beauties, a local pot dealer, comic bits and some really weird things and you
have The
Wonders, a truly unique film out of Israel … in Hebrew with English
subtitles.
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
No comments:
Post a Comment