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Festival, considered the most
important film fest held in
North America, runs Sept. 7-16. Most of
this year's 352 films from 61 countries
are world or North American premieres,
a number of them by Jewish directors
from the U.S., Canada, France, Australia
and Israel.
A sampling of some of these films
will whet your taste for a trip across the
border, but if traveling to Toronto isn't
on your agenda, look for the films' the-
atrical or DVD release in the upcoming
months.
Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Basic
Instinct) received great reviews in 1977
for his Dutch-language film Soldier of
Orange, about the Dutch Resistance in
World War II. The director, who is not
Jewish, often said he wanted to return
to his native Holland and make another
film on the subject.
His new work, Black Book, fulfills
that longstanding ambition, as well as
being the most expensive Dutch movie
ever made. It's the tale of a German-
Jewish young woman who joins the
Resistance and manages to survive the
Holocaust in Holland, while seeking
those who betrayed her family to the
Germans.
From Italy comes the documentary
Primo Levi's Journey. Levi was an
Italian Jew and a chemist who fought
with Italian partisans during World War
II. Captured, he was sent to Auschwitz,
where his chemistry skills allowed him
to eke out survival. After the war, he
wrote acclaimed books about his expe-
riences. Journey tracks Levi's trip from
Auschwitz back to Italy.
In a much lighter vein is For Your
Consideration, a comedy written by
Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy.

This movie-within-a-movie is about the
making of a film, Home for Purim,
about Southern Jews in the 1940s. The
Purim set is awash in rumors that the
movie is going to turn out good enough
to snare Oscars for one or more of its
actors.
Appearing in Consideration in co-
starring roles are Jewish performers
Levy, Guest, Bob Balaban and Harry
Shearer. (A movie Balaban directed,
Bernard and Doris, about tobacco
heiress Doris Duke and her servant, also
plays this year in Toronto.)
Two Israeli movies play the festival.
The Bubble is a fairly dark story
about three young, politically oblivious
Israelis who take in a young Palestinian
man who is illegally living in Tel Aviv.
A gay romance blossoms between the
Palestinian and one of the Israelis. But
the inherent tensions of this situation
tear the group apart.
Bubble is directed and written by
Eytan Fox, an openly gay Israeli. His two
most recent films, Yossi and Jagger and
Walk on Water, earned good reviews
and U.S. theatrical releases.
The other Israeli film, Sweet Mud
is described as a satire, but the subject
matter sounds bleak. A 13-year-old
Israeli boy, living on a kibbutz, tries to
shield his mentally ill mother from men
who use her — but finally gives in and
helps her die. The director-writer is
Israeli Dror Shaul.
The Last Kiss stars Jewish actor
Zach Braff (Garden State) as a suc-
cessful 30-year-old who is torn between
staying with a beautiful woman his age
who loves him or opting for a younger
college student, played by self half-
Jewish actress Rachel Bilson (TV's The
OC).
Sean Penn, son of a Jewish father,
stars as a Southern politician who starts
off well but is corrupted by power in
the second film production of the clas-