In most American films, the winner in the battle between tradition and rebellion, especially in matters of the heart, is predetermined. Israeli director Dover Kosashvili describes a much different culture: Soviet Georgian émigrés who still consider arranged marriage the only option for their children. As Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi) enters his 30s, his parents become desperate for him to get married, even arranging a visit with a teenage girl. Their plans are upset by his attraction to Judith (Ronit Elkabetz), a slightly older Moroccan divorcée and single mother. Zaza's family makes the Costanzas look calm and collected. Their stated declaration that passion is fleeting and needs to be controlled is negated by their tendency to fly off the handle at Zaza and Judith. Kosashvili includes one of the most truly erotic scenes in recent cinema, but his style is a bit distant. (He uses plenty of close-ups, but few register.) The originality of Late Marriage is ultimately demonstrated by a brilliant conclusion in which Zaza rejects -- or brings together -- all the possibilities implied by his predicament. Nominally a comedy, this painfully tense film is more likely to cause squirms of embarrassment in anyone who's had a boyfriend or girlfriend rejected by his or her parents. At the Avon.