A Tale of Love and Darkness 2016 Movie

The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live. More details

Directors

Natalie Portman

Cast

Natalie Portman Gilad Kahana Amir Tessler Moni Moshonov

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biography drama history mystery romance war foreign occupation grief arab israeli conflict depression self punishment mother son relationship suicide reference to transjordan reference to iraq reference to the sea of tears reference to hayim nahman bialik english reference to norway reference to pakistan reference to panama reference to paraguay reference to peru reference to the philippines boy lifted into the air boy handed from person to person reference to poland reference to saudi arabia voting reference to siam reference to sweden reference to syria reference to turkey the country reference to ukraine reference to south africa reference to the soviet union reference to the united kingdom reference to the united states reference to uruguay reference to venezuela reference to yemen listening to a radio radio celebration dancing in the streets slow motion scene overhead shot father and son share a bed reference to vilna poland bully bullying gunfire reference to garibaldi hunger teenage boy collecting bottles israeli national guard imitating an airplane archive footage newsreel footage solidarity dead body kibbutz hulda israel tractor desert suitcase kibbutz reference to a czech rifle suntan pharmacy brother sister relationship father son relationship pogrom riot curfew jeep machine gun russian crying woman singer singing song book hebrew kiss smelling a book teacher brother brother relationship cooking montage uncle nephew relationship grandfather grandson relationship grandmother grandson relationship mother in law daughter in law relationship father in law daughter in law relationship borscht gentile food eating horseradish giving a toast lie mother shares a bed with her son hammer hitting one's thumb with a hammer fantasy sequence etymology novelist bookstore laughter sitting under a table overhearing a conversation drinking drink directed by star 10 year old story telling bedtime story rain bird boy prologue jerusalem old man subjective camera rovno poland rovno ukraine flashback flash forward chandelier servant anti semitism europe girl younger version of character pioneer poet worker revolutionary cigarette smoking poland sosenki forest poland forest family relationships swing german lithuanian ukrainian jew jewish genocide murder voice over narration year 1945 british mandate of israel husband wife relationship tel aviv israel telephone telephone call eyeglasses card playing adultery extramarital affair unfaithfulness infidelity looking out a window name calling prostitute slur hut gasoline box of matches arson burning hut suicide by fire reference to tarzan the invincible the book reading a book friend friendship bus childlessness surrogate son arab israeli french jacket fez party waiter garden rug soccer arabic little boy reference to rehavia israel peace reference to london england lawyer poem poetry reference to rachel the port reference to vladimir jabotinsky reference to shaul tchernichovsky reciting poetry climbing a tree tarzan imitation broken chain link injured little boy scolding pulled by the arm close up of eye mother embtaces son monk india vow solitude drowning drowning woman screaming for help jumping into water saving a life saved from drowning flowers journey boy carries a woman on his back chin wound band aid on chin tolling bell chirping bird sitting under a tree explosion memory headache reference to apc pharmacist conspiracy reference to david ben gurion reference to king abdullah kibbutzim thunder bare chested boy bath bathtub boy in a bathtub mother gives son a bath brain mother combs son's hair cauliflower reference to plato reference to ludwig van beethoven reference to anton chekhov reference to a whale mother dries son's hair briefcase clothesline reference to egypt slamming a door face slap slapping own face mirror looking at oneself in a mirror paradise congratulations reference to greta garbo recording record player listening to music typewriter classical music deception ironing biscuit polish sabbath chess pipe smoking gypsy promise to marry polish soldier colonel pistol gunshot holding a gun to one's head suicide by gunshot shooting electric iron watching someone being watched note drawing of lips folding laundry year 1947 reference to lake success new york reference to new york city reference to the united nations reference to the united nations generl assembly reference to the unscop proposal reference to a muslim israeli soldier israeli army arab soldier reference to a nazi bomb shelter radio news reference to sheikh jarrah israel chicken as food blood shot in the chest murder of a woman murder of a boy murder of a friend fire armistice reference to lebanon israeli flag neighbor cat class classroom 3 year old school bell school schoolyard schoolyard fight poster following someone being followed boy follows his mother innocence water well glass of milk migraine insomnia geese sleeping pills sedative reading a book in bed reference to the roofs of children project wife tells husband to be unfaithful shaving best friend reference to a farmer reference to a dog poisoner reference to a syringe reference to tarzan reference to cowboys and indians reference to a snake reference to snake venom reference to a cactus sitting in the rain sandwich cutting one's finger finger bandage cheating husband knocking on a door melancholia sleeping in a chair blurry vision prayer shawl pills dream reference to a fur trader reference to paris france reference to silver fox fur reference to a vegetarian reference to a cabin fox reference to rabies reference to a fox man apology howling like a fox kiss on the forehead knight restaurant surprise menu doctor stethoscope ill mother ill wife cake seagull ayalon river flooding umbrella marriage looking in a window death death symbol banging on a door revised scene death of wife village ghost town upside down camera shot reference to great britain reference to levin kipnis reference to talbieh israel title directed by female directorial debut spider window throwing mud laundry on a clothesline soldier footbridge writer mother daughter relationship sister sister relationship overdose childhood israeli independence war rationing civil war death of mother death of friend based on book israel f rated

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