'Treasure' is a moving and often surprisingly funny character-driven story about how Edek, a Holocaust survivor father, and Ruth, his American adult daughter, confront trauma.
Gabay is the perfect actor to portray a father’s frustration that he cannot do more to make everything right for her and his performance is so strong.
A festival tradition that will continue this year is lectures by experts that precede the screenings of many films.
The directors learned last fall that they were banned from traveling abroad and would face a trial for making the film.
The movie avoids many of the cliches associated with fictional depictions of resistance fighters.
For all its virtues, The Holdovers invites unfortunate comparisons to the ne plus ultra of teacher-student bonding movies, Wonder Boys.
With their proven track record, Oppenheim, Sharon, and their cohorts will do the British comics justice and leave their Opera House patrons whistling a tune or two, smiling, or possibly laughing.
If you can flow with the feelings behind the movie and see it as a well-observed version of the psyche of a fragile and traumatized child, you will find much to enjoy.
The movie uses a newsreel format to give the story historical context and to lay out the many different factions who fought each other during the pre-state years.
Several of Welles’s works will be the subject of a tribute at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, starting on February 5 and running throughout the month.