Garnering nearly universal acclaim and major award noms from the Academy, Independent Spirit, and Cannes last year, American born and Jerusalem raised director Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is worthy of props for its amusingly clever script, but the film as a whole is decidely lacking. A story of a rivaling father and son, both notable Talmudic Studies professors of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the film explores the absurdity of pride and the tension of unresolved faith in family, but within this tonally unstable charade, there is little to its characters to sink our teeth into, leaving a comedic conundrum of a story with a fleeting sense of tenor. Despite this, Cedar’s film is an amusing lark that weaves within the inane realm of academic accolades and out through the misgivings of intellectual remittance.
Year after year, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) has been passed over for the prestigious Israel Prize,...
Year after year, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) has been passed over for the prestigious Israel Prize,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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