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Today's film by Eytan Fox was

Walk on Water (2004)

I wanted to see this because Fox also directed the acclaimed Yossi and Daggar and Yossi the followup film.

This one has also a gay theme but quite differently realized and not at all at the center of the plot which is a sort of "how will it end" kind of duel between the values of the old style Israeli Mossad (kill them all) and a newer breed of Israeli (forget all that and get on with life).

Strangely, or not too strangely, this is realized when the Mossad guy is assigned to shadow the German grandson and granddaughter of a war criminal, thought to be dead, who is hanging out in South America.

The old guard wants him gone.

The agent is assigned as a tour guide for the German grandson who I knew was gay the second his plane landed. A survival skill for all gay men. Of course this eludes Eyal, the agent, until later when he will find that many of his assumptions about "the gays" are quite wrong.

The two become friends, finally, and the business of the last war is taken care of in a unique way and, well, you will see if you watch this.

Fox clues us in, as we go along, that there will be nothing to fear from where this kind, of sort of, platonic love story goes. Good. I was apprehensive. In his first film one of the guys gets killed and in the second the hero is an asshole. A redeemed asshole but still, it is a long journey.

I liked just about every bit of this film's story. A new and unique buddy film with some of the aspects of a road movie thrown in for good measure. I would definitely not mind seeing it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.

And no, the straight guy is straight and the gay guy is gay and as you might expect the twain only meet in fanciful fairy tales.

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