2020 mini-series from Apple TV
Losing Alice is an erotic, psychological, Neo noir thriller inspired by Faust’s tale. It tells the the story of Alice, an ambitious 47 year old female film director who becomes obsessed with Sophie, a 24 year old femme fatale screenwriter, and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance. Through the prism of this female Faust, the series explores issues such as guilt; jealousy; fear of aging, rage and the complex relationships women have with each other. Losing Alice uses flashbacks and flash forwards in a satisfyingly complex narrative that takes the viewer through the conscious and subconscious of its protagonist’s mind.
IMDb says the show was filmed in Hebrew, so I guess the clips below are dubbed in English. not that it matters much because there is not much dialogue.
Roger Ebert’s legacy site had this to say:
For a show so consumed with the idea that boredom is dangerous, “Losing Alice” certainly does take its time. Director and writer Sigal Avin so belabors the point that an idle mind can stray into self-destruction that “Losing Alice” paradoxically has the same effect on its viewers. The greatest misstep of “Losing Alice” is its fear of letting this story unfurl linearly, and its reliance on disturbing or confusing moments (the premiere opens with a suicide) that are sometimes flashbacks, sometimes flashforwards, sometimes scenes from a film-within-the-film and sometimes Alice’s fantasies or imaginings. How these moments serve as echoes, overlaps, and contrasts to demonstrate what is fact vs. what is fiction is only intermittently satisfying.
Sounds like a lose-lose for everyone except the “arty” film critics. It seems that the only good way to make a good David Lynch film is to be David Lynch. (Or maybe Christopher Nolan.)
Whatever the weaknesses of the show, Lihi is hot.
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 6
Episode 7
I remembered Lihi’s name from We Were The Lucky Ones. Literally, I remembered her name. The fact that I didn’t remember anything else about her is connected with the fact I was unaware of the other 2020 work she had a nude scene in. And another confirmation: There is a third work from four years earlier in 2016 that wasn’t in my go-to nudity database, that I found from a secondary source. This reflects a relatively low level of public interest in her nudity.
I’m ridiculously susceptible to memorably unusual names. Like Stepfanie, Amandla, & Lihi. That’s just silly. It’s embarrassing.
What I remember of Lihi’s character in WWtLO was I think in the Rio episode, she was one of a few characters trying to persuade Addy to just enjoy their relative safety far from the war & not dwell on their past life & all the people they left behind. The actress in that episode who I could think of “in that way” was Nicole Brydon Bloom. She’s in my “oddly beautiful” bucket: along with Anya Taylor-Joy & Caroline Catz. The latter not bc she looks odd so much as it’s odd that I find her beautiful, & it seems to be objective in that many other people concur.
There are other interesting females in WWtLO. Some, notably Joey King, are in my “not my bag” bucket. Eva Feiler & Hadas Yaron are more in my “classic beauty” bucket. Many of its members would be categorized by lots of people as “plain.” This bucket would include Ingrid Bergman. There are also people in there like Stephanie Zimbalist & Maggie Lawson whose looks work for me but miss for some other observers due to either their “plainness” or for being excessively befreckled. I like freckles as they tend to go with porcelain-skinned faces & soft features. As always in such things, YMMV.