As light and tasty as its title suggests, the latest from Eytan Fox (Yossi & Jagger; Walk on Water) is a charming comedy which takes a Eurovision-style song contest as a jumping-off point for a sweet and unabashedly nostalgic evocation of a time when, as one character puts it, “you borrowed a cup of sugar from your neighbour and stayed for coffee”.
In contemporary Tel Aviv, six diverse friends – gay, straight, successful, not so successful – gather to watch the UniverSong competition.
Like most viewers, they are appalled by the winning song, and taking the trials of one of their group whose marriage is splitting up as a subject, they jokingly compose ‘A Song for Anat’ (the work of Babydaddy, from the group Scissor Sisters). They are as surprised as anyone when it is chosen as Israel’s entry for the following year’s competition.
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