The Matchmaker is an awfully familiar movie. It’s set in Haifa, Israel in 1968, but the place and time could almost as easily be the 1930s Italy of Fellini’s Amarcord or Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria or the postwar Italy of Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso. It shares with these films, and many others, a sepia-toned coming-of-age nostalgia, in which in a young protagonist learns the … [Read more...]