The Wedding Plan

After a slow wind, this film is sweetly romantic, spiritual, with flights of funny tenderness.

"Through the Wall" takes the form of a shaggy dog story. A woman sets herself a deadline for finding true love. Is this guy the one? Apparently not, but we're not sure. Time is running out. Is the next guy the one? Apparently not, but we're not sure. Time is running out. Is the next guy the one? And so on. The movie rests largely on the shoulders of the female lead, played by Noa Kooler, and she won Israel's annual Best Actress award. Simple though its structure is, the screenplay also won the best-of-year award. It has to do not only with finding Mister Right but with the question of whether it is nobler for a marriageable young woman (or, by implication, for anyone else) to hold onto the dream or to settle. If someone holds out, is that faith or is it arrogant self- centeredness? The same question, in fact, confronted the heroine of Rama Burstein's previous film, "Fill the Void," but this one has more comical exaggeration surrounding the protagonist while the lead actress herself, despite plentiful experience in comedy, plays it straight.

The movie is very well done, but without a talent like Ms. Koler's, it would not be nearly as compelling, and compelling it is! It holds your interest from the opening scene to the last, and while some might consider it a chick flick, it certainly appealed to me.

What is love? What is marriage? Do faith and God fit in? Great questions, and while this movie may not answer them definitively, it certainly provides an entertaining way to ponder them.

The relationships she has with her women relatives and friends are uplifting...it's all good.

I wont get into the plot, because a lot of the people reviewing this movie did. I will just say that I loved it!! It¨s fun to watch, LOVE Noa Koler and all the things she brings to her character. I got to this movie by looking for romance movies in Amazon and it simply moved my heart and soul. Gd helps those who help themselves. And throughout the movie Michal is set on following her dream and not setting for less. The rock star is SO good looking, but Shimi has something else...he had love in his eyes. Keep your eyes open for israeli films. I will certainly do from now on.

Michal (Noa Koler) is single, Orthodox Jewish woman in her thirties and living in Jerusalem. Desperate in her desire to be married, she arranges a wedding with the intent that God will help her find a groom in time for the ceremony.

Indeed, the premise is odd but it might have worked if director/writer Rama Burshtein had taken the approach of a comical farce. As the comical moments are too few and a more serious approach is used, the film falls flat by the second half even though it's fairly enjoyable in the earlier segments.

Koler is certainly likeable in the role but her character is repeatedly and annoyingly self-defeating. After a while, I had a "Cher/Moonstruck" fantasy where I wanted to bring Cher's character into this movie and slap Michal hard in the face twice and shout "Snap out of it" and then disappear and go back to "Moonstruck". (I also had this fantasy while watching the excruciatingly long "Zodiac". In that scenario, Cher's slap victim would have been the Jake Gyllenhaal character.)

By the time the conclusion rolls around, it doesn't seem to matter whether or not it is plausible. The rest of the movie before it had already lost momentum. - dbamateurcritic.