The Jewish people in "Late Marriage," set in Israel, are traditional in the sense of allowing tradition to dictate much of
their behavior, but decidedly unorthodox in their manner of speech and general demeanor. For example, it is not because of a religious belief in chastity that the parents are angry at their son for sleeping with a woman he's not married to. It's because she's older than he is, and she's been divorced. The premarital sex, one gets the feeling, is OK. In this sad comedy, written and directed by Dover Koshashvili, the son is 31-year-old Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi), a perfectly handsome, well-educated man who is frustrating his parents by continuing to remain unmarried. The folks, Yasha (Moni Moshonov) and Lili (Lili Koshashvili), take him from house to house, basically, trying to arrange nuptials with any eligible young lady they can find. At the film's outset, it's Ilana (Aya Steinovits Laor), a sharp-tongued but pretty 17-year-old. She's so pretty, in fact, that Yasha is ready to take her himself if Zaza doesn't want her.
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