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Ahed's Knee
Why this pick
Lapid again turns personal and national unease into volatile, formally restless cinema, with a protagonist whose anger and self-questioning spill into every encounter.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2019 2h 3m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Shares Synonyms’ abrasive intimacy and unstable moral perspective, following an obsessive adult through a sharply observed Israeli social world.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Why this pick
A more lyrical but similarly identity-conscious portrait of Israeli history and private fracture, anchored in the uneasy relationship between inherited nationhood and selfhood.
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The Wild Pear Tree
Why this pick
For Synonyms’ searching, combative young man: this is another intellectually charged homecoming, built from long, uncomfortable conversations about ambition, belonging, and escape.
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Why this pick
Its dryly comic, escalating encounters with bureaucracy share Synonyms’ stripped-down realism and the feeling of a person becoming trapped inside an impersonal system.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young Israeli man moves from Tel Aviv to Paris — French dictionary in hand — in hopes of leaving behind his Jewish-Israeli origins and starting anew in France.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tom Mercier
Yoav
Louise Chevillotte
Caroline
Quentin Dolmaire
Emile