The Secrets @ The Hipp Cinema Feb 6 - 12

The Secrets
(aka Sodot, Ha-)

February 6th - February 12th

Nominated for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
Best Feature, Best Screenwriter, Jackson Hole Film Festival

"3 1/2 stars. A complex gem." — Box Office Magazine

"One of the most remarkable movies of the year... An engrossing mixture of voluptuous spirituality and incisive sensuality." — NY Observer

One of the best Israeli films of recent years. With Fanny Ardant heading an excellent cast, the film is an emotionally overpowering drama that will move audiences wherever it plays. Naomi persuades her father, a stern but loving rabbi, to send her to a seminary for female students in the picturesque town of Safed. Naomi is intelligent but traditional, and her beliefs are put to the test by several of her fellow students, especially the headstrong, irreverent Michelle, and by Anouk (Ardant), a mysterious French woman who has recently been released from prison. Naomi and Michelle agree to bring food to Anouk, who is in failing health, and they try to learn what motivated her to leave her family for an Israeli lover. While discovering something about forbidden passion, they plunge into a dangerous love affair of their own. The film's mix of sensuality and spirituality is arresting, and "Secrets" encompasses sly humor as well as searing tragedy. Both of the young actresses are luminous. Ardant gives one of her strongest performances as a woman overwhelmed with regrets yet unwilling to apologize for the passion that destroyed her. 2008/ 120mins/ English | French | Hebrew/ R
[Watch the trailer]

Showtimes

Fri (2/6):
7:00 & 9:15pm

Sat (2/7):
4:30, 7:00 & 9:15pm

Sun (2/8):
2:15, 4:30 & 7:00pm

Wed (2/11):
4:30, 7:00 & 9:15pm

Thu (2/12):
7:00 & 9:15pm