Israel has one of the most under-viewed cinema histories and Uri Zohar is its Welles and its Rosebud. No one I know in the US has seen Big Eyes. Zohar himself stars in this hectic tragedy and total self-immolation told against the backdrop of a Tel Aviv portrayed as chauvinist playground — a perception that Zohar’s previous movies helped create. The self-pitying machismo of his character Benny Furman is the heads to a coin that could be shared with Shampoo’s George Roundy on tails. Teaming once again on screen with best friend (and Israel’s answer to John Lennon) the rock legend Arik Einstein, they burn down the screen. It’s a confession and a resignation and after one more film Zohar would quit movies and became an ultra-Orthodox rabbi (a process he recounts in his autobiography WAKING UP JEWISH).
— Jake Paltrow