Taglines: A very sad comedy.
The winner of eleven Israeli Academy Awards, Nina’s Tragedies is a powerful and involving drama, with a poignant comic streak. Winner of 11 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay, Nina’s Tragedies is Savi Gabizon’s strikingly original and bittersweet comedy about a young boy coming-of-age.
Nina’s Tragedies — about the chaotic confluence of people and politics in modern-day Israel — is narrated by a precocious teenage boy, Nadav (Aviv Elkabets). He is consumed by an impossible crush on his aunt Nina (Ayelet July Zurer), whose husband recently died. Pic takes off in a myriad of directions, from a soldier who has a crush on Nina, to a friend of Nadav’s who may be a peeping tom.
But while Gabizon pulls off some nice fantasy touches and stages one particularly lovely, understated sex scene, he fails at fluidly integrating the disparate pieces of his cinematic puzzle, ultimately making Nadav (who seems intended to offer the film’s consistent p.o.v.) a nearly peripheral character.
Nina’s Tragedies (Hebrew: האסונות של נינה) is a 2003 Israeli comedy-drama film about a boy Nadav and his aunt Nina. The film is shown from the perspective of Nadav and tells of his experiences regarding his aunt Nina and her loss, understanding love and confronting death in his family. The film is directed by Savi Gabizon and starring Ayelet Zurer, Yoram Hattab, Aviv Elkabets, Alon Abutbul, Shmil Ben Ari, and Anat Waxman.
Nina’s Tragedies (2003)
Directed by: Savi Gavison
Starring: Ayelet Zurer, Yoram Hattab, Aviv Elkabeth, Evgenia Dodina, Alon Aboutboul, Shmil Ben Ari, Yitzhak Hizkiya, Rivka Neuman, Gili Ben-Ozilio, Osnat Fishman
Screenplay by: Savi Gavison
Cinematography by: David Gurfinkel
Film Editing by: Tali Helter-Shenkar
Costume Design by: Tzipi Anglisher
Makeup Department: Maya Grastal
Music by: Assaf Amdursky
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: October 6, 2003
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