Footnote (He’arat Shulayim)
Saw Footnote last night. It deserves all the accolades it’s receiving. The two lead actors are outstanding, the writing is terrific and Yosef Cedar (who wrote and directed it) is some kind of genius. He’s the one who deserves the Israel Prize at a young age. Scenes are shot in local spots familiar to us, and we have a lot of academic friends who loved it and attest to the unfortunate accuracy of the faculty intrigue in the film. I’m not sure that some of the Boyarinesque themes of Jewish masculinity that Cedar tries to develop really work, but that barely detracts from the overall brilliance of the film.
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