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Peeping Toms
Peeping Toms
6.6
/10
148 Ratings

PEEPING TOMS

Metzitzim

Directed by Uri Zohar
Israel, 1972
Comedy

Synopsis

Gutte and Eli are two ageing friends who don’t want to age. Gutte is an ageing hippy who works as a lifeguard on a Tel Aviv beach. He is also a peeping Tom. He lets his best friend Eli, a married pop-singer, bring girlfriends to his hut, in order to watch the goings on…

Synopsis

Gutte and Eli are two ageing friends who don’t want to age. Gutte is an ageing hippy who works as a lifeguard on a Tel Aviv beach. He is also a peeping Tom. He lets his best friend Eli, a married pop-singer, bring girlfriends to his hut, in order to watch the goings on…

Our take

A sunny beach comedy from cult Israeli auteur Uri Zohar, Peeping Toms captures the frissons of a liberated circle in 70s Tel Aviv. This satirical glimpse at Israeli society—starring Zohar!— centers on the male characters’ socio-sexual anxieties as they come to terms with getting older.