It's tempting to call Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi an Israeli Good Will Hunting-- tempting, but inappropriate, since they're different in tone. Yet each involves a youth revealing his hidden genius. Shlomi ...

16 years old, Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores.

‘Bonjour, Monsieur Shlomi” (Strand, 2003) was nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards but, incredibly, won none. It deserved the nominations. The movie, which was issued on DVD Tuesday, is the ...

Writer-director Shemi Zarhin seems to understand how a gifted and sensitive child might neglect his own needs to hold together a dysfunctional family; his title character, a brilliant Tel Aviv teen, ...