Minotaur (1997)

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Minotaur: Directed by Jonathan Tammuz. With Mili Avital, Dan Turgeman, Georges Corraface, Christine Jones. Alex Abramov is Mossad secret agent looking after some bad guys. He falls in love with young music student Thea, but can not reveal himself and sends her gifts secretly. Thea first thinks that it must be another student, G.R., who sends gifts, and bad guys, knowing about Alex’s feelings towards Thea, attack G.R. by mistake.

“If you are a ROMANTIC see this movie. If you are not — stay away.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e First off I loved it. It is dark, modern, and forces contradictions on you. Like living in todays world. Where everybody is killing each other for their own good.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e The film is a variant on Romeo and Juliet except that Juliet doesnu0026#39;t get to meet Romeo — exactly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e Juliet appears to be a graduate student in New York with an artistic nature. Romeo appears to come from a cultured background, is well read in poetry and music and practices a profession which is called u0026quot;wet worku0026quot; these days.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRomeo observes Juliet from a distance and writes her letters. Their only real u0026quot;contactu0026quot;. In the hands of a different kind of film maker this story would descend into an awful obsessive-love/stalker piece of crud.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e This film manages to steer clear of that polarity but makes no bones about the u0026quot;unhealthyu0026quot; environment in which Romeo moves and operates. It also shows us that Romeou0026#39;s love at a distance — which gives him hope — is destructive to Juliet.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e Ultimately what this film is about is posing a question: u0026quot;In murderous times like these how can we expect to experience the beautiful things which fairytales tell us are real, good and true and ought to be our lot?u0026quot; Worse, how can we expect u0026quot;beautyu0026quot; itself to survive?”

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