Tale of Love and Darkness

Nominee
Golden Camera
Cannes Film Festival
Every frame of ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ reflects Natalie Portman's passionate striving and her grieving heart.
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness is based on the memories of Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with Arieh, his academic father and Fania, his dreamy, imaginative mother. They were one of many Jewish families who moved to Palestine from Europe during the 1930s and 40s to escape persecution. Arieh was cautiously hopeful for the future but Fania wanted much more. The terror of the war and running from home had been followed by the tedium of everyday life, which weighed heavily on Fania’s spirit. Unhappy in her marriage and intellectually stifled, she would make up stories of adventures (like treks across the desert) to cheer herself up and entertain her 10-year-old son Amos. He became so enraptured when she read him poetry and explained about words and language; it would become an influence on his writing for the rest of his life. When independence didn’t bring the renewed sense of life that Fania had hoped for, she slipped into solitude and sadness. Unable to help her, Amos was forced to say an untimely goodbye. As he witnessed the birth of Israel, he had to come to terms with his own new beginning.
PG-13
Genre
Bio-pic, Drama, History
Runtime
98
Language
Hebrew
Director
Natalie Portman
Cast
Natalie Portman
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

Natalie Portman proves herself a filmmaker of intelligence, ambition and inventiveness in her debut as a director and writer — just not one who is always certain as a storyteller. A Tale of Love and Darkness adapts, with a passionate somberness, several threads from Amos Oz's autobiographical novel ...

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