Vai e vivrai

Living a lie yet finding truth

Steeped in achingly relevant questions about the nature of ethnic identity and cultural acceptance, the intimate epic "Live and Become" is a valuable dramatic addition to our understanding of the recent history of an ever-uprooted world populace.
It begins in 1985 with a 9-year-old Ethiopian boy starving in a Sudanese refugee camp, whose mother insists he pretend to be a Falasha -- as Ethiopian Jews are tribally known -- so he can be saved in a rescue operation by Israel's Mossad. [...]

di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1436 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 giugno 2008