Song of the Siren Movie Review

My particular favorite at 1995's Jewish Film Festival was Eytan Fox's Song of the Siren, based on Irit Linur's best-selling novel. Siren takes place during the days of Operation Desert Storm, but Talila Katz, its wry and funny protagonist, pretty much ignores the conflict, the news bulletins, and all the precautions she's supposed to be taking in order to outlive the war. Instead, she's concerned with finding a husband, and not just any husband. Her choice is Noah, a food engineer so cute that violins play when she first lays eyes on him. But things get in the way, as they often do during 91-minute love stories. The intense focus on the personal at a time when the media focused an nothing but the war seems very real. AKA: Shirat Ha'Sirena.

1994 91m/C IS Dalit Kahan, Boaz Gur-Lavi, Yair Lapid, Avital Dicker; D: Eytan Fox; C: Avi Koren.