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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranActors gravitate toward passion projects, films they care deeply, even obsessively about, but the end result is hardly ever as convincing as A Tale of Love and Darkness a film of beautiful melancholy. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerPortman's ability to convey this rich borscht of people, place, and inescapable history is flavourful indeed. So it's unfortunate that, while getting so many difficult things right, she makes an almost equal number of missteps on the easy stuff. |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderPortman and Tessler distractingly take turns playing the lead, causing the film to lose continuity. A flaw worsened by a tale that frustratingly rambles in spots, particularly when Portman indulges her inner Ingmar Bergman. |
| Globe and MailBarry HertzThe Israeli author’s melancholy work might on the surface be an odd choice for Portman, but as writer, director and star, she takes to it with a fierce sense of devotion and even protection, creating a Hebrew-language drama about the tight, complex bond between a mother (Portman) and her son (Amir Tessler). |
| Bust MagazineKatherine BarnerNatalie Portman's first directed film turned into a beautiful piece of art, honoring a brilliant memoir and important time in history. |
| Common Sense MediaSandie Angulo ChenPortman's biopic of Israeli writer is earnest, ethereal. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerWhile A Tale of Love and Darkness is often difficult to watch — because of all the sadness it presents — it is also a beautiful film in that it makes us think about existing in a world where we do not completely fit in. |
| Slant MagazineOleg IvanovThe film mostly succeeds in capturing the nuances of an event that continues to arouse passionate debate to this day. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA sobering and insightful screen rendition of Amos Oz's memoir. |
| PopMattersLesley M. SmithPortman's solemn, accomplished film allows viewers to begin to imagine such lives, not simply in relation to Palestine in the '40s, but also whenever we are confronted with the faces of migrants and refugees in our streets and on our screens. |
