Foxtrot is something different. Something wonderfully different.
It's a film that plays in three parts .
First we see a family go through bereavement for a son killed on duty only to find out that he hasn't died and the army have made a mistake . Secondly we follow the son , Jonathan who is stationed at a remote outpost where big mistakes get brushed under the carpet and thirdly we go back to his parents where the grief is genuinely real this time .
I loved this film.
It's a slow burner that relies on superb acting and a moving script .
It's a film about coping with grief , about making the right ( or wrong ) decisions and about fate . Just when you think the worst has been prevented it happens anyway.
Lior Ashkenazi is the star of this film . He is incredibly impressive as the dad . Sarah Adler is annoyingly good as well .
The middle part of the film where we follow the son and his soldier friends is the light relief sandwich between the serious stuff.
I found it moving and thought provoking and it makes you think how you would cope if one of your children died. Not a nice thought but at no stage did I find this film depressing.
This film has won many awards and was Israel's submission to the foreign language film award of the 90th Oscars and deservingly so.
Highly Recommended.
It's a film that plays in three parts .
First we see a family go through bereavement for a son killed on duty only to find out that he hasn't died and the army have made a mistake . Secondly we follow the son , Jonathan who is stationed at a remote outpost where big mistakes get brushed under the carpet and thirdly we go back to his parents where the grief is genuinely real this time .
I loved this film.
It's a slow burner that relies on superb acting and a moving script .
It's a film about coping with grief , about making the right ( or wrong ) decisions and about fate . Just when you think the worst has been prevented it happens anyway.
Lior Ashkenazi is the star of this film . He is incredibly impressive as the dad . Sarah Adler is annoyingly good as well .
The middle part of the film where we follow the son and his soldier friends is the light relief sandwich between the serious stuff.
I found it moving and thought provoking and it makes you think how you would cope if one of your children died. Not a nice thought but at no stage did I find this film depressing.
This film has won many awards and was Israel's submission to the foreign language film award of the 90th Oscars and deservingly so.
Highly Recommended.