‘Wedding Doll’: Love and toilet paper roll along
Love and toilet paper get together on the big screen in a tale that takes romance and tissue to places they have never been before.
The stuff must be a symbol for something because this is an art-house movie.
The two find themselves falling into what passes for love amid the towering rolls of white tissue in the plant and on the wastes of the Negev desert just outside the factory door.
[...] “Wedding Doll” is an affecting, offbeat romance and a coming-of-age tale of a mentally impaired woman who rises above cruelty, prejudice and an overprotective mom.
When she isn’t smooching Omri on a majestic overlook above the Negev, Hagit spends the day making miniature bridal dolls out of toilet paper, fending off bullies, trying to cope with her condition and dreaming of becoming a bride herself.
Rosenblatt, named best actress at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival for her performance, doesn’t go for pathos but makes Hagit into a troubled, tormented and ultimately triumphant heroine.
At a key moment, she silently discards one of her toilet paper dolls, letting it and some of her fantasy world slip from her fingers.
Hagit fashions the stuff into wall sculptures, Omri makes Hagit a pair of binoculars out of empty tissue rolls, Omri’s dad peeks through the tissue stockpiles to espy his son stealing a kiss.
[...] in a climactic wedding scene unlike any other ever filmed, Hagit fashions scores of toilet paper rolls into a hooped bridal gown.