Virgins (2018)

Original title

Vierges

Directed by

Keren Ben Rafael

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel, France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

הותר לבני 16 ומעלה

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager in a small Israeli coastal town chafes against her boring life and fights with her Russian mother. She becomes fascinated by a writer who comes to investigate a report of a mermaid sighting.

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What happens

Virgins (Hebrew: אין בתולות בקריות, French: Vierges) is a 2018 French-Israeli drama film and the feature-length directorial debut of Keren Ben Rafael. The film stars Joy Rieger, Michael Aloni and Evgenia Dodina. It centres on a rebellious teenager, Lena (Rieger), dissatisfied with the monotony of her life in Kiryat Yam and always battling her Russian mother, Irena (Dodina). Lena becomes quickly interested by the arrival of a handsome writer (Aloni), reporting on an alleged mermaid sighting in the beach community. The film received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 18 April 2018, before its Israeli premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival on 30 July. Rieger won the Best Actress Award at Tribeca and the film received five Ophir Award nominations, including Best Actress (Rieger), Best Supporting Actor (Aloni) and Best Supporting Actress (Dodina). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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