A Tale of Love and Darkness

An average movie

“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I always had a weak spot for Natalie Portman, I thought I might as well check her directing debut. Well, even if it was quite ambitious and quite courageous to deliver a movie spoken only in Hebrew, to be honest, the damned thing was not really good, I’m afraid. Indeed, I can imagine that Portman had a personal link with this story but it never grabbed me at all. I mean, the historical background, the start of the Israelian state, was interesting but it didn’t have much impact on the story itself after all. In fact, there was not even a real plot at all and, instead, we followed the life of a family living in Israel back then which wasn't necessarily a bad idea. However, unfortunately, none of these characters was really i” read more

A Tale of Love and Darkness

“Props to Natalie Portman’s writing and directing debut for being such a smartly handled adaptation of a seminal work about Jewish history and identity. Does her artistic ambition exceed her grasp? Absolutely, but this is no mere vanity project by the star as much as it is a truly invigorating work. You’ll forgive her occasional heavy-hand or awkward transition between reality, memory, or story within a story fable.   A Tale of Love and Darkness is an adaptation of Amos Oz’s autobiography alternating between his childhood in Jerusalem and his parents remembrances of pre-WWII European life, all of it marked either with the promise or fulfillment of violence. Much of the film obsesses over Oz’s relationship with his mother and the stories she told him as a child. These memories oft” read more

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