Harry Rosenmerck, an Ashkenazi Jewish American cardiologist, left everything to become a pig farmer in the Holy Land.... (Full plot summary below)
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Harry Rosenmerck, an Ashkenazi Jewish American cardiologist, left everything to become a pig farmer in the Holy Land.
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| Movie NationRoger MooreHoly Lands works when Harry and Moshe are bickering, and doesn’t quite work anytime they’re not on the screen. |
| ObserverRex ReedDespite good performances from a first-rate cast, the problem here is that the movie was written and directed by Amanda Sthers, who adapted it from her own novel. The result is too literary, but not in a good way. It’s choppy like paragraphs from a book, instead of chapters. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawA good performance from Tom Hollander can’t save this stodgy, ungainly and strangely reactionary family drama from the French writer-director Amanda Sthers. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireSthers has amassed such a strong cast of veteran actors that they manage to create some resonant moments now and again. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThis treacly and overwrought piece of mishegoss from French novelist turned director Amanda Sthers is pretty much a chore from start to finish. |
| User ReviewKenRIf this work was based on an actual family’s story it might have resonated better but, Amanda Sthers, seemingly fictional story, tends to miss its mark. The writing style tries way too hard to be 'trendy/modern' as well as too often jarringly 'different' for its own sake– this tends to make it rather more boring than involving, IE; why did the main character choose ‘Pig’ farming in Israel? With a more conventional approach, it might have been more human, As is, it’s just too overloaded with ‘political’ statements about certain elements of modernity, and unsure of its connections with the past (as it tends to perhaps need more of) Has moments of thoughtfulness but, not enough to cut through the convoluted melodramatics to make you fully care. |
