Love Life

Love Life

Based on the bestselling novel by Zeruya Shalev.

2007113 min4.5 / 10

A psychologically complex drama about desire and deception, where an affair becomes a vehicle for exploring midlife crisis, power imbalance, and the darker currents beneath romantic attraction.

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.

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