LATE MARRIAGE
JEWISH MOTHER CONQUERS AMERICA IN SEX COMEDY

Being a Jewish mother is a state of mind that reveals itself in the souls of all immigrant mothers. It is the symbol of resistance, of survival, of the defense of cultural roots and the ethnicity itself in foreign, many times inhospitable, lands. A metaphor that naturally transfers to the Palestinian mothers in the territories occupied by Israel, to the Turkish in Germany, to the Italians in the United States, Portuguese and Arabs in France etc.

Many times this symbol flourishes also in the brechtian figure of the mother-courage among resistant impoverished migrants in their own countries. Classic examples of this figure in the movies: "The Mother", shot in 1927 in Soviet Russia by Vsevolod Pudovkin and, above all, Anna Magnani in "Mamma Roma", by Pier-Paolo Pasonini, his magnificent 1962 work.

Now comes to us the film "Late Marriage", the debut by the Georgian descendant Israeli Dover Kosashuili, easy to guess, about the persuasion power of a Georgian-Jewish mother. Launched by the success in the USA, this "powerful comedy", according to Stephen Holden, from 'The New York Times', highlight in the selections of the festival 'New Directors/ New Films' and of the 25th São Paulo International Film Festival, it is projected by the strong erotic charge that fills the first half hour of its action.

The Georgian mother in "Late Marriage" follows the role reserved to her attributes: to have her dear 32-year-old son well married to a good family, pretty and preferentially virgin girl. The problem in the comedy is that the son has an affair with the divorced mother of a six-year-old girl. The sex scenes between the two lovers were projected to anthology category by the American critics, which considered them to be even better than sex in porn. War is declared so that the desire of the mother prevails above the son's hot desires. All for the legend of the Jewish mother to survive. And it does, very well, in this film that can't be missed.

Read now the selection of compliments in the American critics to the sexual behavior of the characters in "Late Marriage":

"May be the single most believable sex scene ever captured on film - porn included. It¹s a fucking revelation." - Mike D¹Angelo, Time Out

"The most important sequence in Late Marriage is a refreshingly frank sex scene. We don¹t often see sex like this on the screen. Watching this scene we realize that most sex scenes in the movies play like auditions." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"The protracted sex scene is probably the most realistic ever depicted on film - utterly devoid of the flowery contrivances of more romantic films, and equally lacking in the staged raunchiness of porn." - Christy Lemire, Associated Press

"The frank, protracted love scene unfolds with a realistic sensuality Hollywood has spent its entire history avoiding." - David Ansen, Newsweek

"Perhaps the most languidly realistic sex scene I¹ve ever seen in a movie. The extended bedroom sequence is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics." - Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

"It just might be the year¹s best sex scene." - Andrew Johnston, Us Weekly

"It will cause a stir for a love seen that is one of the longest and most erotic, tender and passionate ever to occur in a serious film." - Kevin Thomas, LA Times

"One of the most original and erotic love scenes I¹ve ever seen. It feels so real that you may never be able to watch a Hollywood love scene again without having to stifle giggles." - Christopher Kelly, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

"One of the hottest and longest sex scenes we¹ve seen in quite a while." - V.A. Musetto, NY Post

"One of the most truly erotic scenes in recent cinema." - Steve Erickson, Boston Phoenix

"A justly heralded sex scene that sets a new standard for on-screen intimacy." - Scott Tobias, The Onion

"One of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film." - Megan Turner, NY Post