Sublet

[Played Aug. 27 on AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Terrific acting dominates Eytan Fox's enjoyable, moving, down-to-earth, realistic, low-key, well-written, heartfelt, bittersweet, 91-minute film in which a bestselling, gay, fifty-something, Jewish travel journalist (John Benjamin Hickey), who writes The Intrepid Traveler column for the New York Times and is grieving with his longtime husband (Peter Spears) after their surrogate miscarries, spends five days in Tel Aviv, Israel, and finds a renewed energy for life when he rents an apartment from a much-younger, charming, handsome, free-spirited, pansexual, Israeli film student (Niv Nissim), whose single mother (Miki Kam) lives in a kibbutz.
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