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A Tale of Love and Darkness

  • 20152015
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 35m
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6.0/10
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Natalie Portman in A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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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 relationsh... Read allThe 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 ... Read allThe 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.
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    • Natalie Portman
    • Natalie Portman(screenplay by)
    • Amos Oz(based on the book by)
  • Stars
    • Natalie Portman
    • Gilad Kahana
    • Amir Tessler
    • Natalie Portman
    • Natalie Portman(screenplay by)
    • Amos Oz(based on the book by)
  • Stars
    • Natalie Portman
    • Gilad Kahana
    • Amir Tessler
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    • 29User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
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    Amir Tessler in A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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    Amir Tessler in A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
    Natalie Portman and Amir Tessler in A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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    Natalie Portman and Amir Tessler in A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    • Fania
    Gilad Kahana
    Gilad Kahana
    • Arieh
    Amir Tessler
    Amir Tessler
    • Amos
    Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    • Old Amos
    • (voice)
    Ohad Knoller
    Ohad Knoller
    • Israel Zarchi
    Makram Khoury
    Makram Khoury
    • Al Hilwani
    • (as Makram J. Khoury)
    Neta Riskin
    Neta Riskin
    • Haya
    Alexander Peleg
    Alexander Peleg
    • Old Amos
    • (as Alex Peleg)
    Rotem Keinan
    Rotem Keinan
    • Tsvi
    Tomer Capone
    Tomer Capone
    • The Pioneer
    • (as Tomer Kapon)
    Yonaton Shiray
    Yonaton Shiray
    • Teenage Amos
    • (as Yonatan Shiray)
    Vladimir Friedman
    Vladimir Friedman
    • Mr. Licht
    Henry David
    Henry David
    • Colonel Jan
    Dina Doron
    Dina Doron
    • Grandma Klausner
    • (as Dina Doronne)
    Yitzhak Peker
    • Grandpa Klausner
    • (as Itzhak Peker)
    Dima Ross
    • Pharmacist
    Bar Sade
    Bar Sade
    • Sonia
    Jana Fridman
    • Grandma Mussman
      • Natalie Portman
      • Natalie Portman(screenplay by)
      • Amos Oz(based on the book by)
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    • Trivia
      The producers wanted the adaptation to be filmed in English but Natalie Portman fought for it to remain in Hebrew, like the book.
    • Quotes

      Old Amos: The only way to keep the dream alive, full of hope and not disappointing is to never try to implement it. A dream brought to life is disappointing. This disappointment is the nature of dreams.

      [last lines]

    • Connections
      Referenced in Evening Urgant: Viacheslav Fetisov/Ladlena Fetisova (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Opening Music
      Performed by Caitlin Sullivan, Kyle Armbrust

      Composed by Nicholas Britell

      (P) 2015 Voltage Pictures under exclusive license to Milan Entertainment Inc.

    User reviews29

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    7/10
    A Moving and Artistic Film
    I have not read the book upon which the film was based, so my comments are purely on the film. Maybe fifteen or twenty minutes in I was thinking, okay, what's going on here? Why should I care about this story and these characters? As I continued to watch my caring about the characters and their story increased, until, by the end, I was very moved and cared deeply.

    At some point beyond halfway, I thought the greatest feat here is the creation of mood, not only of the characters but of the whole world presented in the film, and then, transferred to me, by virtue of my watching and listening to it. It's a visual and auditory feast.

    A lot happens in this film, both personally and historically, but ultimately what I was left with was a sense of a man recalling his childhood and the emotion that he carried with him through his life. As other reviewers have indicated, it's a poetic film, and I wound up absorbing it the way I might a poem. And in that way, it worked beautifully.
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    • Dec 25, 2016

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    • Release date
      • August 19, 2016 (United States)
      • Israel
      • United States
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      • Hebrew
      • English
      • Arabic
      • Russian
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      • Jerusalem, Israel
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      • Focus World
      • Avi Chai fund
      • Gesher Fund
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    • 1 hour 35 minutes
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      • Black and White

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