Perhaps the two main stories that emerged from this year’s Cannes Film Festival were the jewelry heists (who knew Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale was so prescient?) and the praise and immediate backlash heaped on the Palm d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, namely Elaine Sciolino’s piece in the New York Times in which […]
Directed by Ziad Doueiri Produced by Jean Bréhat & Rachid Bouchareb Written by Doueiri & Joëlle Touma, based on the novel L’Attentat by Yasmina Khadra Released by Cohen Media Group Lebanon/France/Qatar/Belgium. 102 min. Rated R Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles With Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsellem, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Karim Saleh, Dvir Benedek, Ruba […]
Directed by Elie Wajeman Produced by Lola Gans Written by Gaëlle Macé & Wajeman Released by Film Movement French & Hebrew with English subtitles France. 90 min. Not rated With Pio Marmaï, Adèle Haenel, Cédric Kahn, Guillaume Gouix & Sarah Le Picard Gritty Aliyah plays ironically on the meaning of the Hebrew word for “to […]
Produced & Directed by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi Produced by Burnat, Davidi, Christine Camdessus & Serge Gordey Released by Kino Lorber Arabic, English & Hebrew with English subtitles Israel/Palestinian Territories/France/Netherlands. 90 min. Not Rated It’s not unusual for the father of a newborn to get a camera and take a lot of photographs as […]