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A Film by Honi Hameagel
(Israel, 2006, 82 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles)
An intimate portrait of Israeli masculinity through three hard-core womanizers at the Tel-Aviv beach. From 1975-2005, the director-cinematographer, a reputable avant-garde artist and womanizer in his own right, followed his close friend Ronny Sagman and two of his pals - Alon “G-String” and David “The Irishman” - who never fail to devise new antics for chasing their eternal passion: women.
The film‘s protagonists refuse to give in to social conventions (such as time constraints), and religiously pay a daily visit to the beach - winter, spring, summer, and fall - as if it was their calling. Their sole purpose in life is the hunt - conquest after conquest; conquest for the sake of conquest.
During the course of several years, the film paints a portrait of the Israeli male, raising poignant questions about physical and emotional impotence, ethnic inferiority complexes, and Israeli/Jewish masculine identity on Tel-Aviv’s beachfront. The harder the beachfront tries to be a haven, an enclave separate from Israeli reality, the more it comes to express and characterize that identity.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Best Editor Award – “DocAviv” Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2006
“Hot Docs” Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, 2006
Sofia International Film Festival, 2006
TV SCREENINGS
Channel 8, Israel
QUOTES
“Manhood Israeli style… A portrait of pathetic and sad male narcissism… whose protagonists endlessly deal with their body and sexual organ… An effective and poetic documentation. ”
Uri Klein, Ha’aretz
Price Valid for DVD screening only
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