Hello Goodbye
at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Film screenings:
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - San Francisco
Monday, August 3, 2009 - Berkeley
Monday, August 10, 2009 - San Rafael
In this entertaining romantic comedy, Alain (Gérard Depardieu) and Gisele (Fanny Ardant) are a comfortable, middle-aged Jewish French couple whose marriage needs a spark. Their son’s decision to marry a non-Jewish girl—in a church, no less—inspires them to do what other couples may only have thought about: pack up and move to the Land of Milk and Honey. Alain, a prominent gynecologist in Paris, is promised a job at a Tel Aviv hospital, but when that falls through he is forced to find a new way to make a living, while navigating a new language and missing his favorite French soccer team. Meanwhile Gisele, a converted and dedicated Jew, falls in love with Israel and its people almost immediately, developing a close friendship with a handsome rabbi (Lior Ashkenazi of Walk on Water). The cultural obstacles they face threaten to force the couple apart as their upper-middle-class ambitions melt in the Mideast sun. Will Tel Aviv and Israeli culture bring them closer together back into the reality they left behind? Hello Goodbye is a charming and at times hilarious story of spontaneous adventures during a midlife crisis.
—Grant Stevens
Directed by Graham Guit
2008 | France, Israel, USA | color | 99 min | French with English subtitles
Get more details and online tickets. This film screens with Sidney Turtlebaum.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street, San Francisco - map
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 3:35 pm
Roda Theatre at the Berkeley Rep
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley - map
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 6:15 pm
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
1118 4th St., San Rafael - map
Co-presented by the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay, Alliance Française de San Francisco, Building Jewish Bridges and LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Co-sponsored by Craig Harrison's Expressions of Excellence!™, and by Fred Levin & Nancy Livingston, the Shenson Foundation
