1972 · comedy · drama · beach
Peeping Toms
Directed by Uri Zohar1h 30m1972
Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in altman's restaurant.
Our read: Peeping Toms (1972) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama · beach entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
Watching Peeping Toms tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Peeping Toms feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a raw 70s Israeli beach comedy about two aging bums clinging to youth and voyeurism.”
Skip it tonight — You want polished or family-friendly comedy or avoid 70s sexual frankness.
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