DVD Review - Only Human
Only Human is a very funny film that touches on some serious issues. The story centers on a zany Spanish-Jewish family that go by the name of Dali (shortened from Dalinsky).
Leni (Marian Aguilera), a successful television star, is bringing her fiance Rafi, a professor (Guillermo Toledo) home to meet her family. Under ordinary circumstances they would be nervous but it just so happens that Rafi is Palestinian. How the couple is going to tell her family is making them break out in a sweat.
Leni's menopausal mother Gloria (Norma Aleandro) is very happy to see her daughter and meet her beau. And so is her sexy, promiscuous, belly dancing sister Tania (Maria Botto). Tania and her young daughter Paula (Alba Molinaro) lives at home as does her newly religious brother David (Fernando Ramallo) and blind grandfather DuDu (Max Berliner). Leni's oddly distant father Ernesto (Mario Martin) also lives there but we don't get to meet him until later in the film. The only other thing I will say about the story is that there is one incident that leads to all hell breaking loose.
Writers/Directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri have created some really funny characters. But I never felt that they were over the top (like I have in other films) These people felt like they could be real. The film is filled with good performances and lots of laughs. But it also touches on some heavier topics such as religion vs. secularism and the different way
the Jews and the Palestinians look at things. These are important topics to think about and discuss. And although this little film will not solve these big problems it made me think, wouldn't it be nice if we could all get along (despite our differences)?
Leni (Marian Aguilera), a successful television star, is bringing her fiance Rafi, a professor (Guillermo Toledo) home to meet her family. Under ordinary circumstances they would be nervous but it just so happens that Rafi is Palestinian. How the couple is going to tell her family is making them break out in a sweat.
Leni's menopausal mother Gloria (Norma Aleandro) is very happy to see her daughter and meet her beau. And so is her sexy, promiscuous, belly dancing sister Tania (Maria Botto). Tania and her young daughter Paula (Alba Molinaro) lives at home as does her newly religious brother David (Fernando Ramallo) and blind grandfather DuDu (Max Berliner). Leni's oddly distant father Ernesto (Mario Martin) also lives there but we don't get to meet him until later in the film. The only other thing I will say about the story is that there is one incident that leads to all hell breaking loose.
Writers/Directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri have created some really funny characters. But I never felt that they were over the top (like I have in other films) These people felt like they could be real. The film is filled with good performances and lots of laughs. But it also touches on some heavier topics such as religion vs. secularism and the different way
the Jews and the Palestinians look at things. These are important topics to think about and discuss. And although this little film will not solve these big problems it made me think, wouldn't it be nice if we could all get along (despite our differences)?
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