Walk On Water

If not quite as successful as YOSSI & JAGGER (2001), which used a romance between two closeted gay soldiers to expose Israeli army life, director Eytan Fox's fourth feature is far more ambitious and intriguingly complex. A month after Mossad agent Eyal (LATE MARRIAGE's Lior Ashkenazi) returned from a successful mission to discover that his despondent wife (Nataly Szylman) had committed suicide, his aging boss, Menachem (Gidon Shemer), assigns his crack assassin to what sounds like a baby-sitting mission. He wants Eyal to pose as a guide to German tourist Axel Himmelman (Knut Berger), whose sister Pia (Carolina Peters), a kibbutznik living in Israel, is worried about ...