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Synopsis: Based on the international best-seller by Amos Oz, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS is the story of his 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.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Natalie Portman
Actors: Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov
Production: Focus World
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
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PG-13
Year:
2015
95 min
$569,381
Website
341 Views

Perhaps when life failed to

fill the promises of her youth,

my mother began

to envision death

as a protective,

soothing lover.

My version of her story

would have ended differently.

But it was her story to tell.

Is your father home?

There's a call from Tel Aviv.

It's urgent, please!

A few years after

my mother's death,

I left my father

and all of Jerusalem,

changed my name,

and went to

kibbutz hulda on my own.

My mother's dream,

milk and honey,

make the desert bloom,

pioneer.

Hello.

Amos?

Hello!

You're taller than me!

Can you hand me

my suitcase, please?

Thank you.

Though I forced myself to

learn how to drive a tractor...

Lay irrigation hoses,

hit the target

with a Czech rifle,

I still did not manage

to transform myself.

No one was taken

in by my suntan.

They all knew perfectly well,

and I knew it myself,

that even when

my skin was bronzed,

I would still be pale

on the inside.

This is

my school now.

The only way to keep

a dream whole,

hopeful and

not disappointing,

is to never try

to live it out.

A fulfilled dream

is a disappointing dream.

This disappointment

is in the nature of dreams.

Mother

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag; June 9, 1981) is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Portman made her feature film debut as the young protégée of a hitman in Léon: The Professional (1994). While still in high school, she gained international recognition for starring as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and received critical acclaim for playing a precocious teenager in the drama Anywhere but Here (both 1999). From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University for a bachelor's degree in psychology. She continued acting while at university, starring in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull and the sequel Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002). In 2004, Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in Closer. The Star Wars prequel trilogy concluded with Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), following which Portman portrayed a wide variety of roles. She played Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2006), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Portman went on to star in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011) and featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). For portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic Jackie (2016), Portman received her third Oscar nomination. Portman's directorial ventures include the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015). In 2008, she served as the youngest jury member of the Cannes Film Festival. Portman is vocal about the politics of America and Israel, and is an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes. She is married to the dancer Benjamin Millepied, with whom she has two children. more…

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