Eyes Wide Open is the first film of the Israeli film director Haim Tabakman. Eyes Wide Open is an Israeli movie released in 2009.
In Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, Aaron the butcher piously follows the religious rites with his wife and four children. One day, Ezri, an attractive, homeless young man, enters his shop to ask for work. Aaron cannot help but feel an unwanted attraction, but chooses to keep close to temptation to better resist it, in order to come closer to God: he hires and gives shelter to the handsome young man. But the two of them cannot keep their passion under control for very long. After Kadosh and My Father, My Lord, Israeli movies exploring the subject of religious orthodoxy in a controversial manner, Eyes Wide Open delicately tackles another taboo: homosexuality within an intolerant community.
Haunting, languorously paced tale of a doomed Orthodox Jewish gay couple – a father of four, and the young man he hires as an apprentice in his butcher shop – eschews sentimentality and pathos, instead letting body language and the dusty, gloomy streets of Jerusalem shape the story
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