Walk on Water
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In Theaters : 04 March, 2005
DVD Release : 30 August, 2005 |
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Walk on Water description
An unusual psychological spy thriller, Walk on Water follows Israeli agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, from the superb romance Late Marriage) as he tries to learn from a German brother and sister (Knut Berger, Push and Pull, and Caroline Peters, Schone Frauen) whether or not their grandfather, a Nazi commander, is still alive--but his growing friendship with the pair forces him to grapple with his wife's suicide only months before. Walk on Water grapples with racial prejudice and homophobia without once seeming preachy; surprisingly, the spy storyline introduces these issues naturally, as Eyal's hostility towards Arabs and his blithe view of Nazi war criminals are central to his character. Ashkenazi is charismatic and subtle; his bedroom eyes and understated smolder make him something of an Israeli Clive Owen. Don't buy Walk on Water expecting James Bond spectacle, but the excellent performances, intelligent script, and quiet tension will draw you into this thoughtful and emotionally nuanced movie. In English, with a few subtitled scenes in Hebrew and German. --Bret Fetzer |
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Walk on Water Customer Reviews
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Bites more than it can chew
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It is refreshing to watch movies depicting things other than American suburbia and exploding cars, and speaking several languages with naturalness, and seeing actors move against truly urban and/or exotic backdrops.
Yes, I confess, I am one of those people who ravenously scour the BlockBuster and takes anything foreign that looks remotely promising.
But this movie severely tested my patience.
I can't decide whether it is that Lior Ashkenazi and Knut Berger are bad actors, or the plot simply forces them to act in such a stiff way, that they can't perform.
If this movie aims at encompassing the subjects of hatred, identity, homosexuality, war, and forgiveness, and then produce some sort of coherent message, it fails. Instead of a plot, we have characters engaging, more or less randomly, in sanctimonious exchanges that don't add up to much, followed by the occasional gratuitous cruelty.
Paradoxically, the less important the characters, the best the acting is. Gideon Shemer is good as the mild-mannered, avuncular secret service S.O.B. Axel's mother and father are also solid and give a credible performance. Even the short appearances of the rest of the Mossad staff are credible and to the point.
But as soon as Eyal (Ashklenazi) embarks in some statement about the Holocaust or the Palestinians, or Axel (Berger) tries so hard to play the liberal-assumed-homosexual-that-can-be-friends-with-an-hetero, the movie stops dead.
At some point the movie is so trite that becomes annoying.
-Axel's Grandpa is a Nazi war criminal. Gee, I wonder to what Argentine country he fled.
-Eyal has to come, reluctantly, to Germany. Gee, I wonder what is going to happen in the subway when their friends cross a group of skinheads.
-Axel and Eyal have to bath together. Gee, I wonder about what semitic ritual operation they will talk about (all in a safe, heterosexual way, of course).
I don't continue because I risk to ruin whatever little plot the movie has. But you get the idea.
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