2022 · comedy · drama · suburbia
Karaoke
Directed by Moshe Rosenthal1h 44m2022
Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
Our read: Karaoke (2022) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama · suburbia entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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