Filmmaker Danae Elon has used her personal life to explore issues related to Judaism and Israel in such films as Partly Private and Another Road Home. Her latest effort, crafted very much in the same style, concerns her decision to move back to Jerusalem, the city where she grew up, and the emotional and familial difficulties that resulted. A cross between home movie and documentary essay, P.S. Jerusalem emerges as a rough-hewn but moving effort that, thanks to the ever-volatile situation in the Middle East, proves unfortunately timely.
Elon’s feelings about returning to Israel are made even more complicated by...
Elon’s feelings about returning to Israel are made even more complicated by...
- 3/21/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danae Elon’s family history provides the point of departure for an exploration of the political situation
Documentary maker Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem, the only child of an American Jewish literary agent, Beth Elon, and an Austrian Jewish refugee from the Nazis, Amon Elon, who became a prominent left-wing intellectual, writer and public figure in Israel. This biographical context is crucial to Danae’s latest film Ps Jerusalem, just as it was to her previous, Another Road Home, in which she tracked down the Palestinian man who looked after her when she was a child. Here, the director’s personal history becomes a prism through which to explore Israeli-Palestinian relations and family dynamics.
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Documentary maker Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem, the only child of an American Jewish literary agent, Beth Elon, and an Austrian Jewish refugee from the Nazis, Amon Elon, who became a prominent left-wing intellectual, writer and public figure in Israel. This biographical context is crucial to Danae’s latest film Ps Jerusalem, just as it was to her previous, Another Road Home, in which she tracked down the Palestinian man who looked after her when she was a child. Here, the director’s personal history becomes a prism through which to explore Israeli-Palestinian relations and family dynamics.
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- 2/16/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance Channel said Tuesday that it has acquired pay TV rights to six documentary films from the international docu sales company Films Transit International Inc. The films are Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's The Corporation, Dane Elon's Another Road Home, Oren Seidler's Bruce and Me, Andrew Douglas' Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, John Appel's The Last Victory and Carey Schonegevel's Original Child Bomb. The films will make their U.S. television premieres on Sundance Channel late this year and early next.
- 6/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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