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Antarctica

Hearts are melting in Tel Aviv.

2008 · 1h 52m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Yair Hochner

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Overview

Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end up inadvertently dating the same handsome journalist, Ronen.

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Fresh

It's fun to see attractive people get together and fall apart.

Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

Ambition and a roomful of good-looking guys isn't quite enough.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Rotten

While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten

Hochner is terrific at staging intimate encounters, and he gets his story off to a lively start -- only to run out of ideas and momentum.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

This new Israeli sex romp is a better advertisement for the country than a tourist bureau could provide -- at least for gay travelers.

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

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