20 years ago Georgian-Israeli director Dover Koshashvili's debut feature burst onto the international film festival circuit, earning numerous awards and heralding a new generation of Israeli film-making. It was made with the encouragement and assistance of Koshashvili's professor at Tel Aviv University, Yael Perlov.

Join Congregation Kehillath Israel, The Consulate General of Israel to New England and Ballets Russes Arts Initiative for a unique opportunity to watch Late Marriage (2001) and hear from its editor, Yael Perlov.

A comedy-drama about an Israeli graduate student under pressure from his traditional Georgian-Jewish family to marry a suitable woman while being in love with an older divorcée, Late Marriage features a breakout performance by Lior Ashkenazi and an iconic appearance by the late Ronit Elkabetz. Languages: Hebrew and Georgian, with English subtitles.

NB: This film has a scene of adult intimacy. Admission is restricted to those 18 and over.

Legendary critic Roger Ebert wrote the following about the film's love-making scene in his enthusiastic review of Late Marriage: "The scene is not about passion, performance or technique, but about (listen carefully) familiarity and affection.... Watching this scene, we realize that most sex scenes in the movies play like auditions."

Schedule:

5:30 pm Doors open for seating

6:00 pm Introductory remarks by Consulate General of New England and Congregation Kehillath Israel

6:15 pm Screening begins

7:45 pm Q&A with Yael Perlov, moderated by Anna Winestein, KI Director of Programs

* Cover image: still from Late Marriage, courtesy Lior Danzig.

Yael Perlov is an acclaimed film editor and producer from Tel Aviv, and daughter of the renowned Israeli filmmaker David Perlov. Born in 1959, she won the Israel Film Academy Prize for editing Late Marriage by Dover Koshashvili, (2003) and again for producing and editing Ben Gurion, Epilogue (2017). She is a laureate of the Art of Film Prize of Israel’s Ministry of Education and Culture (2009).

Other editing credits included Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985, assistant editor), David Perlov’s iconic Yoman (1983), a number of films for the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem and several more of Koshashvili’s features, including Gift From Above (2003) and Infiltration (2010).

Yael has been a film lecturer, teacher for the past two decades at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. During the Spring 2022 semester, she is Artist In Residence in Cinematic Arts at Duke University.