But Where Is Daniel Wax? (1972) User Reviews

a legitimate contender for "best israeli movie ever" title

[max_s444 · 10/10 · 13 July 2002]

A successful singer returns home to his native Israel with his beautiful english wife. he then becomes obsessed with finding his hero from the university, Daniel Vax, who seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. his journey through 1970 Israel, reveals a disturbing view of the country and its people, at what should be the peek of their power.

This movie deals with the question nobody young wants to ask - what happens to you after you have acchieved your life's dream. what then ?

You have to be Israeli, or smarter than me

[Nozz · 31 December 1999]

I saw the film when I was new in Israel, and it bored me completely. I saw it again twenty years later and I thought it was a terrific commentary on its generation. I guess you need either to have lived here, or to be better at understanding another culture than I was when I first saw it.