Noodle (2007)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Ayelet Menahemi

Writers:

Shemi Zarhin (writer) and
Ayelet Menahemi (writer)

Release Date:

26 July 2007 (Israel)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly...

Awards:

2 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Mili Avital	...	Miri Calderone
BaoQi Chen	...	Noodle
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alon Abutbul	...	Izzy Sason
Sinaya Ben-Dor	...	Ilana
Yiftach Klein	...	Mati Gueta
Daphna Shpigelman	...	Batya
Sarit Vino-Elad	...	Dafna
Anat Waxman	...	Gila Sason
Roni Yuria	...	Yaeli

Runtime:

Israel:90 min | South Korea:100 min

Country:

Israel

Language:

Hebrew | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:All | Mexico:A

Company:

Norma Productions

Movie Connections:

Features Knafayim Shvurot (2002)

Well acted, and not too absurd

Okay, the movie suffers from several absurdities as the plot is forced forward; but no more absurdities than you generally find in an adventure movie. And it is an adventure movie, although the adventure is not about transporting a diamond across the treacherous Andes but about finding security for a stranded boy amid the frustrations of bureaucracy and the distractions of job and family. (One of the absurdities is that when necessary, a job such as gym teaching seems to pose no obstacle to scheduling or financing a quick plane ride across the world.) The usually glamorous Mili Avital and the usually super-cute Anat Waxman look as if they were willing to forgo a layer or two of make-up to look realistically middle-class. The boy actor whose believability is essential retains that believability while leaving no scene unstolen.