Sheva Brachot (Seven Blessings) brings the family drama as the Israeli Ophir Award winner opens the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema. The film is described as a comedy-drama but it plays more to the dramatic side than anything else. If you’re Jewish, you can skip the rest of this paragraph. For my non-Jewish readers, the Sheva Brachot are the seven blessings at Jewish weddings. Any meals with the bride and groom in the seven days…
"Sheva Brachot (Seven Blessings) – Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema"Tag: Reymonde Amsellem
Testament: The Story of Moses does its best to give a thrilling recreation of the Exodus from Egypt but the docudrama has its flaws. (UPDATE: One of the Egyptian scholars interviewed in the docudrama celebrated the Hamas attacks of October 7. This is sickening, disturbing, infuriating, reprehensible. It is unfortunate that the production team kept her comments in the film rather than cut her out of it.) What do The Ten Commandments, The Prince of…
"Testament: The Story of Moses Has Some Major Flaws"
An Israeli profiler profiles a recent Palestinian assassin in The Future, leading to some very intense conversations with each other. The film stars some time after a young Palestinian student, Yaffa (Samar Qupty), shoots the Israeli Minister of Space and Tourism at point blank. This comes as an Israeli spacecraft is on the brink of landing on the moon. Anyway, Dr. Nurit Bloch (Reymonde Amsellem) is brought in to profile the university student to find…
"The Future – Tribeca 2023"