Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Joe + Belle

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Sun, May 06 @ 9:30 pm

Brattle Theatre

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Director

Veronica Kedar

Year

2011

Run Time

80

min

Country

Israel

Language

Hebrew

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

An accidental murder brings two girls together in a series of wild crimes and romance over the course of an evening.

This film is presented in Hebrew with English subtitles.

Things get very complicated very quickly when Joe, an angsty drug dealer, meets Belle, a buoyant suicidal psychopath, in this dark comedy. After an outlandish accident in Tel Aviv leaves the pair with a body to dispose of, they embark on a madcap journey to lose the cops - and end up finding love in Sderot (the target of ongoing rocket attacks). Gritty but tender, Joe + Belle offers an absurd portrait of life in contemporary Israel. Come and see the film that AFTERELLEN.com calls “Totally offkilter, sexy and stylish in a distinctly grungy, almost ‘90s sort of way” that “manages to say something deep about love and violence while still offering all the gallows humor you could hope for.

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