Every Time We Say Goodbye ** (1986, Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6179

Co-writer/ director Moshe Mizrahi’s simple, easy-going, slightly sudsy 1986 romantic movie stars Tom Hanks as David, an eager American World War Two wartime flier who joins the RAF and is recovering in Jerusalem after a leg injury.

Tom Hanks plays David.

He meets, romances and falls in love with strict young Jewish woman called Sarah (Cristina Marsillach) from a family of Sephardic Jews, originally from Spain and now living in Jerusalem. But, despite the mutual attraction, she thinks their relationship could never work because of their different backgrounds.

Such charm as the film has comes mainly from Hanks’s appealing portrayal as the son of a Protestant minister, who is aghast at the relationship. Marsillach tries hard, and is pleasant enough, but makes much less of a favourable impression.

In 1986 it proved difficult to get people out to the cinema to see this unsurprising, small-time affair, one of Hanks’s least popular and least well-known movies. It grossed a spectacularly low $278,623 in the US. The film is good hearted and pleasant without being special in any way. However, it is well worth a look though.

Benedict Taylor plays Peter.

Also in the cast are Benedict Taylor as Peter, Anat Atzmon as Victoria, Gila Almagor as Lea, Moni Moshonov as Nessim and Avner Hizkiyahu as Raphael.

It is written by Moshe Mizrahi, Rachel Fabien, Leah Appet, shot by Giuseppe Lanci, produced by Jacob Kotzky and Sharon Harel, scored by Philippe Sarde and designed by Micky Zahar.

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