"The Syrian Bride": Eran Riklis's Global Honeymoon

    With The Syrian Bride, Israeli director Eran Riklis sturdies his reputation as a filmmaker who can tell a local story with universal appeal -- Israeli audiences included. It's the sort of breakthrough that resonates with the self-proclaimed maker of "obscure Chinese or European films" who spent part of his boyhood in the U.S. and loves American movies. Says Rilis, "In terms of genre, The Syrian Bride is a little bit of a Western...