Digging for Truth in a Life That’s Built Upon a Lie
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of “Live and Become,” an intermittently compelling swatch of recent Israeli history filtered through the experience of an African immigrant.
With epic aspirations that are only partly realized, the movie, directed by the Romanian-French filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu, aspires to be something like a contemporary “Exodus” from an outsider’s point of view. But so many themes converge with so much history, as the film tries to integrate an anguished personal odyssey with two decades of events, many seen briefly on television, that 140 minutes is barely enough time. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (5063 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 1 febbario 2008
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