A curious and well-intentioned enigmatic romance about a Jewish couple (Ciaran Hinds and Juliet Aubrey) whose past tragedy - the loss of their young son in an accident - haunts their present and complicates their reconstructed lives in Tel Aviv.
In spite of the presence of another child, a 13-year-old daughter, the couple exist in an atmosphere of detached companionship. Enter a strange and charming young man who acts as a kind of emotional catalyst. The wife is intrigued; the husband encourages the relationship. The daughter, not surprisingly, is confused.
A subtle though unsatisfyingly shallow attempt to trace the elliptical nuances of a fractured marriage held together by the remaining traces of love, set in the context of the Palestinian/Jewish conflict, Roberto Faenza's movie - based on the novel by Israeli Abraham Yehoshua - has aspirations above its capacity to elucidate them.
The Lost Lover
Cert: certPG
