Part of International Film Season 2012
UKJF Recommends: Footnote
UK Jewish Film recommends two special screenings of Footnote, the latest film by acclaimed director and writer Joseph Cedar. The film will be screened at the Tricycle Cinema as a part of International Film Season 2012 which celebrates the finest submissions to the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Award category at the Academy Awards®.
Synopsis:
Cantankerous Professor Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo bar-Aba) is a Talmudic scholar, who has laboured for years in relative obscurity, whereas his ambitious son, Uziel (Lior Ashkenazi) has far greater success. When a bureacratic mishap leads to Eliezer being informed he has won a prestigious prize that was in fact intended for his son, the old man’s vanity and resentment explode to the surface. As befits the academic context, words are the star here: the dialogue bubbles with wry wit and cynical one-upmanship. Assured direction with skilful editing keeps viewer sympathies shifting uncertainly between the two bitter rivals. Occupying the ground between tragedy and comedy, and with an epic score that elevates the story to a grand scale, Footnote is a subtle tale of ego,
temptation and ultimate betrayal.
Best Screenplay Award: Cannes Film Festival 2011
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