"Popular gay filmmaker Eytan Fox, whose prior two films, Yossi and Jagger and Walk on Water, enjoyed healthy limited-run success in the US, returns with The Bubble, and again proves that his strengths lie in establishing tender, fraught human relationships within volatile settings," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "Yet in shuttling these fragile souls through stock tragic frameworks, he sometimes undermines them, both personally and politically; though The Bubble makes for a mostly impassioned liberal plea, Fox's need to spin its central gay romance into a star-crossed present-day West Bank Story leads him to fall into some unnecessary stereotyping. Which is unfortunate since there's so much loveliness in The Bubble."

Updated through 9/10. Posted by: dwhudson    Source

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