Vierges (2018)

Vierges: Directed by Keren Ben Rafael. With Joy Rieger, Michael Aloni, Manuel Elkaslassy, Evgenia Dodina. In Kiryat Yam, small town on the north coast of Israel, everything seems to have stopped. Lana, a rebellious teenager, vowed to fight against resignation and immobilism. She couldn’t imagine that the rumor of a mermaid off the coast would wake up her town from its torpidity and give her the possibility to finally live.

“This wasnu0026#39;t a bad movie. The acting was good, the lead actress very convincing as young and naive, but also dangerous and seductive. If anything the character (and actor) of the reporter made me too aware of the fact the movie was Israeli, his attitude both arrogant and pathetic, like so many male models in their films. But the biggest flaw of the story was that it goes nowhere: it presents the characters, it sets up the stage, it teases something magical (at least in the abstract sense), then it just ends.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBottom line: if you want a movie about silly people stuck in their heads and living their small town dramas, you might enjoy this. Itu0026#39;s done well enough. I just felt it said nothing of relevance.”