
He was an Israeli actor and my goodness is he beautiful!!! He is why I ended up watching the film, he is absolutely beautiful. Tall, gorgeous body, beautiful face, honest eyes... I couldn’t keep my eyes off of him.
As for the film, if you like foreign films and reading subtitles, it’s worth the watch (minus the ending). The film is very interesting and I enjoyed it until the final scene. His acting is wonderful, and I liked the woman who played his girlfriend. She was lovely.
The films -
“Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male-written, love letters that undermines his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 95 | October 29, 2021 2:33 AM |
A tribute video to his beauty
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | January 16, 2021 10:48 PM |
What’s fascinating about him is not only his beauty, but the fact he did very few films and then decided to not act anymore, despite actually being good at it and getting offers because of his looks. He was a model before getting into acting.
He is now a Director of Business Development
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 16, 2021 10:50 PM |
You can watch the film for free on Tubi, by the way.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 16, 2021 10:50 PM |
Beautiful guy, but that's one of the worst names I've ever heard for a movie.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 16, 2021 10:51 PM |
R8 that’s the American release title. It’s not an American film.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 16, 2021 10:53 PM |
[quote] [R8] that’s the American release title. It’s not an American film.
I never once claimed it was, r9.
It's still a horrible title for a movie.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 16, 2021 10:57 PM |
Totally agree R11. Horrible title for a movie!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 16, 2021 11:01 PM |
But apparently the original title שבלולים בגשם also means "Snails in the Rain." Does it work better in Hebrew? Some connotation that gets lost in translation?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 16, 2021 11:02 PM |
He's pretty but the character seemed rather mentally backward— or perhaps Israeli culture is so utterly foreign to ours.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 16, 2021 11:05 PM |
It was set in Tel Aviv r14. In case you don’t know this, the whole world isn’t some big ball of progressiveness.
Also, he was playing a “straight” man confused by his sexuality. You’re crazy if you think that doesn’t still happen just because the country is more “progressive”.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 16, 2021 11:08 PM |
The scene he goes to the park where gay men go to fuck
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | January 16, 2021 11:08 PM |
[quote] foreign
The story is set in the 1980s.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 16, 2021 11:12 PM |
He's prettier than Adam Levien and doesn't have any of that childish skin-painting.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | January 16, 2021 11:15 PM |
R17 the film was filmed in Israel, by an Israel film production etc. it’s a foreign film. It was released in the USA in 2013 by TLA.
And yes, it is set in 1989.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 16, 2021 11:15 PM |
I luvs me some swarthy sexy hot semitic mins
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 16, 2021 11:17 PM |
Does he fuck a man in the film?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 16, 2021 11:25 PM |
R21 no. He never fucks a man.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 16, 2021 11:31 PM |
R23 no. He spends the film battling his own sexual identity and feelings. He constantly thinks about the guy he wanted back in the Army, and who was his first gay kiss etc. he would gawk at him as they showered etc. he gets off thinking about this. He is truly troubled when it comes to his sexuality.
He is receiving letters from a man who is in love with him, but he doesn’t know who. Toward the end we find out who and that man hires gorgeous prostitutes to fuck him and he pretends it’s Boaz (the main character).
The final scene we get a flashforward scene, and Boaz is now married to his GF with a child, and her pregnant again.
So, like many, he went the straight route, ignoring his true feelings and wants.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 16, 2021 11:38 PM |
Model Yoav (pronounced Yov, not Yoo-av)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 25 | January 16, 2021 11:40 PM |
He's got Momma's mussy parting like the Red Sea!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 16, 2021 11:43 PM |
He is truly something. Wow.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 16, 2021 11:58 PM |
I'd rip his pants off and pleasure him all night! Thanks OP!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 17, 2021 12:16 AM |
The film is definitely worth watching, and yeah the lead actor is sexy as hell.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 17, 2021 12:32 AM |
A "small film" that's interesting all the way through - even the ending, which was curious. Definitely the camera loved his face... beyond the beauty he had good screen presence. I'll look forward someone on DL to see if they can find info on why he decided to leave acting.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 17, 2021 12:41 AM |
Oh! An attractive man in a homophobic "gay" movie!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 17, 2021 12:57 AM |
This critic is ridiculous.
I don’t think he understood the movie at all, and he even bitches how Boaz pushes away the guy complimenting his eyes, stroking his cheek and then going in for a kiss. Boaz is “straight”, and most of them would not be comfortable with a man doing this to them. I don’t see why the critic is so offended by it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | January 17, 2021 1:05 AM |
The Jewish Film Institute seemed to love it
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | January 17, 2021 1:10 AM |
Another review, from Australia, praising it
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | January 17, 2021 1:19 AM |
One persons biggest criticism is that the person cast as Boaz is TOO good looking, so much so that it distracts you and takes away from the overall film. Another’s was that he is shirtless, showing off his body too much, which, again, was distracting to them.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 17, 2021 1:26 AM |
The film sounds like a long tease. Not interested in "maybe I have gay feelings, but I shall fight it and marry my GL" scenario.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 17, 2021 1:28 AM |
Correction: "my GF" scenario.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 17, 2021 1:29 AM |
R42 the film has 3 main focuses
Sexuality
Obsession
Repression
The film is about Boaz’s repressed feelings (literally, he repressed all his memories from his gay experience while in the Army) as much as it about sexuality and obsession (and relationships as a whole).
The more Boaz remembers his gay experience from the past, the more he longs for that again and gets off to it, but that only ends up making him feel more guilty which leads to him growing paranoid and angry.
It’s an ongoing cycle many really go through.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 17, 2021 1:35 AM |
And he’s got a cute little ass
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 17, 2021 1:00 PM |
Love his tight little ass
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 46 | January 17, 2021 2:34 PM |
I very much want to uncover HIS truth.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 17, 2021 3:19 PM |
It looks like a great film....thanks for the tip. Beautiful men!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 17, 2021 3:54 PM |
R48 he is the most beautiful. I am infatuated
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 18, 2021 8:35 PM |
[quote] It looks like a great film
I've seen it and I can't agree. It's unsatisfying as cinema art. And unsatisfying for sexual arousal.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 18, 2021 10:32 PM |
R50 it’s a film. Not porn
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 22, 2021 7:00 PM |
He is gorgeous. Top notch beauty
by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 15, 2021 2:10 AM |
Oh I found a trailer with English subtitles
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 53 | February 15, 2021 2:15 AM |
Is this him today. He his married to an "Adi Ronen" and this is an instagram for her. He would be 35 ish now.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 54 | February 15, 2021 2:30 AM |
When DL Crushes Grow Up.
Our poor little Jackie Papers.....
by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 15, 2021 2:34 AM |
R55 yes that’s him, older now. Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 15, 2021 2:35 AM |
That cunt. She has my mans dick in her? Hell no
by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 15, 2021 2:41 AM |
Dear oh dear, we Dataloungers have been wetting ourselves over this pretty, provocative prickteasing gay-for-pay male model who spurns us.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 15, 2021 2:43 AM |
Don't be vulgar. DL is perfectly searchable. Why not say something nice about your beloved and his lovely family and be a pleasant fan. Sheesh. Manners around here.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 15, 2021 2:43 AM |
Do they pour salt on him?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 15, 2021 2:45 AM |
He’s very very pretty. Even now.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | February 15, 2021 2:48 AM |
Awww is his hair thinning?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | February 15, 2021 2:58 AM |
This guy, named Matan Shalev, is just as pretty as that other Israeli guy.
And Matan shares his penis
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 66 | March 4, 2021 7:38 PM |
I was dying to see his Zionist Expansion Policy.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 4, 2021 7:54 PM |
Are there bathhouse or steam-room scenes? Just wondering b/c of OP's pic.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 4, 2021 7:55 PM |
I'm glad the movie captured his looks in 2013. He's just normal today.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 4, 2021 7:55 PM |
Could someone please spoil: who was writing the letters?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 4, 2021 8:06 PM |
The professor was a real Mary Ann.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 4, 2021 9:03 PM |
Agree, he is cute, but I cannot get onboard with the visuals of the film title. Talk about a cold shower!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 4, 2021 9:18 PM |
That isn’t a shower. He’s a swimmer and that’s him in the locker room after swimming in the pool.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 4, 2021 9:44 PM |
He’s a beautiful man. May rewatch
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 4, 2021 10:04 PM |
The sequel “Pillbugs in a Hailstorm” brought the hotness too.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 8, 2021 6:43 PM |
R77 lmao thank God that didn’t happen
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 8, 2021 6:45 PM |
Someone who finally lives up to DL hype. Israeli men are generally gorgeous. Michael Aloni is another actor who is A+.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 8, 2021 6:59 PM |
It’s probably all the drinking and smoking he did in his 20s catching up to him.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 8, 2021 7:14 PM |
[54] what a disappointment! His sexy good looks took a beating! Did marriage have something to do with this 'transformation?' No wonder he gave up acting--he just looks ordinary now-just a good-looking dude; nothing else! (Damn, domestication does it every time!).
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 8, 2021 7:26 PM |
He gave up acting while he still looked like OP.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 8, 2021 7:34 PM |
The film was a disappointment. Nothing really happens.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 8, 2021 7:38 PM |
[66]--I beg to differ=he doesn't hold a candle to Yoav (that is when he was in movies!)
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 8, 2021 8:08 PM |
He is now married; just saw a pic of him with his wife and kid--God! what happened to those 'Pretty Boy' looks? He looks like a typical husband--no sense of 'adventure' in him!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 22, 2021 7:07 PM |
r87 r82 Repeat yourself much?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 22, 2021 7:10 PM |
I think he is still handsome. Just older and looks a bit more tired.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 22, 2021 9:40 PM |
You people need to find some fresh meat to obsess over.
And I suggest you choose a genuine gay man rather than a faker.
I suggest these two candidates—
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 90 | May 22, 2021 10:16 PM |
Actors are fakers.
Dataloungers who obsess over fakers are fools.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 22, 2021 10:30 PM |
No one is obsessing. Appreciating someone isn’t obsessing.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 22, 2021 11:14 PM |
I may rewatch simply because he was so beautiful and actually gave a lovely performance
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 23, 2021 2:37 AM |
Just saw a recent pic. of him with his wife and he holding their kid! What a transformation! The Pretty Boy looks are COMPLETLY gone, now he looks like a middle age businessman! What the hell did he do to himself?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 29, 2021 2:33 AM |
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