Love at Second Sight (1999 film)

Love at Second Sight
Theatrical release poster
אהבה ממבט שני
Directed by	Michal Bat-Adam
Written by	Michal Bat-Adam
Produced by	Michal Bat-Adam
Starring	Michal Zoharetz Alon Abutbul Yossi Yadin Nathan Cogan Yigal Sade Chaim Banai Devorah Bertonov Davida Karol Matti Bahar Ruth Geller Orly Katan Ra'anan Hefetz Sami Huri Shachar Bar Shosh Shlam Micha Celektar Amir Bone Michael Teplitzky Itzik Farage Guy Loel Uri Omanuti Ma'ayan Erez Dror Shaked Anat Salonim Mira Kazdan Shlomit Arnon Daniel Mizrahi Tal Yakobovich Roee Hassan Amos Ungar Tammy Gropper Leonid Kresnik Doron Avrahami Raz Binyamin Yossi Eliyahu Ariel Horowitz Uzi Adarbi Sandra Er Elior Hemo Eli Ben-David Eli Salama Shaul Biton Marius van Dam Göran Bergqvist Sergey Selinkin Uzi Dvir Ran Bone Limor Prag Ruth Sheffer Tal Terem Gil Ben-David Netanel Alon Dror Ruth
Cinematography	Yoav Kosh
Edited by	Boaz Leon
Music by	Daniel Mizrahi Yehuda Oppenheimer
Production companies	Ahava Mimabat Sheni Productions Israel Broadcasting Authority Israel Film Fund The Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts
Distributed by	National Center for Jewish Film
Release date	18 February 1999 (Israel)
Running time	90 Minutes
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Budget	$ 400,000

Love at Second Sight (Hebrew: אהבה ממבט שני, romanized: Ahava Mimabat Sheni) is a 1999 Israeli independent underground dramatic art film directed by Michal Bat-Adam.

Synopsis

Nina (Michal Zoharetz), a 25-year-old photographer living with an 80-year-old senior, Frumin (Nathan Cogan), with whom she is in a relationship, and, who developed an interest in the field due to the fact that her grandfather, Olek (Yossi Yadin, played by Micha Celektar as a younger man), was one too, discovers one day in one of the photos she took an interesting-looking man, Dan (Alon Abutbul), she did not notice while taking the picture. She begins looking for him, becoming obsessed with this search: Although Nina knows nothing about this man, she feels as if her relation to him is not some caprice, and knows he is meant for her and that she must find him, for, otherwise, she may not be able to live with herself.

Reception

Writing in Haaretz, critic Uri Klein opined that the film, "although taking place in contemporary times, has something old in it, of an older, different, Israel, much older in fact, in which young women lived with elderly men and served their most elementary romantic fantasies."