To Take a Wife

To Take a Wife VeLakahta Lekha Isha French Prendre femme is a 2004 drama film. It is the directorial debut of veteran actress, Ronit Elkabetz who also stars in the film. The FrenchIsraeli production premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in September 2004.

In Haifa in 1979 hairdresser Viviane Amsalem listens to her brothers as they argue her out of asking her husband for a divorce and convince her to go back to him. In front of her family her husband, Eliahou, promises her that everything will be different. However in the morning he leaves her to fend for herself as she struggles with attending to her four children. Before she starts work she receive a call from Albert, a former lover, asking her to meet with him. Over the course of the day she attends to her hairdressing clients, her husband and her children, but as her petty grievances with her husband add up she ends the night exploding at him and beating him with her fists in front of her children and her neighbour, who enters the home and helps to separate her from her husband.The following day Viviane agrees to see Albert in a cafe where he asks her to leave her husband and reveals that the last time he asked her that she was ready to go but he ended up fleeing with his family to Africa. After their meeting he drops her at a bus stop in the rain, but returns to give her a kiss. ........

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