Natalie Portman – Israel, EEUU 2015 – 95 min – DCP – V.O.S.C.
Natalie Portman, Makram Khoury, Shira Haas
[mini-icon icon=”time”] Thursday 22/9 18.30h – Friday 30/9 22.00h
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Filmoteca de Catalunya
[mini-icon icon=”play-circle”] Fiction
[mini-icon icon=”certificate”] Premiere in Spain
A Tale of Love and Darkness is based on Amos Oz’s memories of growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his the academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania. They were one of many Jewish families who moved to Palestine from Europe during the 1903s and 1940s to escape persecution. Arieh was cautiously hopeful for the future. But Fania wanted much more. The terror of the war and the running had been followed by the tedium of everyday life, which weighed heavily on Fania’s spirit. Unhappy in her marriage and intellectually stifled, to cheer herself, and to entertain 10-year-old Amos, she would make up stories of adventures, treks across the desert. Amos was enraptured while she read him poetry and explained to him about words and language in a way that would influence his writing his entire life. When the independence didn’t bring with it the renewed sense of life that Fania had hoped for, she slips into solitude and sadness. Unable to help her, Amos must say good-bye before he is ready. As he witnesses the birth of a nation, he must come to terms with his own new beginning.
With a presentation on 22/9 by Fania Oz-Salzberger, historian and professor at Haifa and Oxford universities. She is author, along with her father Amos Oz, of Jews and Words
Awards
Nominated – Golden Camera – Cannes Film Festival 2015
Nominated – Cinema for Peace Award 2016
