Film
Footnote (2012)
Review
Footnote (2012)
What a clever film. Joseph Cedar's fourth feature won Best
Screenplay at Cannes and was nominated for the Best Foreign Picture
Oscar. No wonder. It brims with intelligence - academic, emotional,
structural - as it explores manhood through work and family.
The film opens with Uriel's (Ashk...
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Film Details
Father and son Eliezer (Bar-Aba)and Uriel Shkolnik (Ashkenazi) are rival professors in Talmudic studies. After decades of unheralded, painstaking study, the curmudgeonly elder, Eliezer, wins the Israel Prize. Uriel is then presented with a dilemma that could bring him glory but crush the old man.
- PG
- 103 minutes
- Drama
- 19 April 2012
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- Joseph Cedar
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- Joseph Cedar
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- Shlomo Bar-Aba,
- Lior Ashkenazi,
- Aliza Rosen
