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DTA D 1DTAD i.DTAD CTADiDTADieCTAD 24555 W. 12 MILE ROAD Just west ofTelegraph Road • Southfield 248 352•7377 BREAD BASKET Receive lio%ort Total Food ill Dine-In only. Not valid with Specials. Not valid with any other offers. With coupon. Expires 6/30/09 1N BEST LAMB CHOPS IN TOVi/N- - Or, *FULL BAR ammovolow,, 4301 FULL SERVICE Ygif4,!•9 -tit• CATERING iLoif.10 Save an additional 30 ill alteady educed mete ands.e' Mating lick tomtit and eitittirteit Gifto (tad Recommin ' v • r , B8 May 14 2009 Film recounts bittersweet tale of co-existence. Tarik Kopty and Hiam Abbass in Lemon Tree Tom Tugend Jewish Telegraphic Agency T he Israeli film Lemon Tree is a striking story about relations between individual Israelis and Palestinians and illustrates one of the anomalies of our perception of the Middle East conflict. If, as a foreigner, you want to under- stand the attitudes of an ordinary Palestinian or absorb some levelheaded dissent from Israeli government policy, your best bet is to read Israeli newspa- pers or watch an Israeli movie. That is a tribute to Israel and to its journalists and filmmakers. Can you imagine Hollywood creating, or mighty America accepting, a film that portrays the Viet Cong as sympathetic human beings during the Vietnam War or Taliban fighters with understandable resentments in Afghanistan today? Director/co-writer Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree was inspired by an actual incident some eight years ago. At the opening of the film, Salma Zidane, a 45-year-old widow from a small West Bank village abutting Israel's Green Line, is bottling some spicy lem- onade in her kitchen. The ingredients come from a small lemon grove, which she inherited from her father and which she tends lovingly with the help of an elderly handyman. The rural rhythm is disturbed when the newly named Israeli defense min- ister, Israel Navon, decides to build a large, handsome house directly facing the lemon grove. His security detail warns that the abundant lemon trees would provide perfect cover for terrorists aiming to assassinate Navon and orders that all the trees be uprooted. Although both Arabs and Israelis counsel the widow that it's hopeless to fight the edict, she appeals first to the Palestinian Authority, which doesn't want to be bothered, and then to an Israeli military court, which quickly rules against her. Despite the warnings of everyone, including her young Arab lawyer, Salma insists on taking her case to the Israeli High Court (Supreme Court). The case now becomes a national and international media story, to the exasperation of Navon, who chides reporters at a press conference for bugging him about lemons when he has to worry about the country's survival. In parallel, the film gently develops the story of the loneliness of two mid- dle-aged women and the silent bond of sympathy that develops between them. One is Salma, who attracts and is attracted to her much younger Arab lawyer, to the dismay of her relatives. The other is Mira, Navon's wife, who grows increasingly estranged from her husband, both for his roving eye and his callousness toward the lemon- grove widow. The hearing before a Supreme Court panel is an emotional highlight and without giving away the verdict, each side wins a bit and loses a bit. Despite the underlying serious- ness of the film, Riklis lightens it with flashes of humor. Best is an Israeli, named Private Quickie (for his slow- ness), who whiles away long hours in a guard tower studying audio self- improvement courses. Outstanding in a fine cast is Hiam Abbass (The Visitor), a native of Nazareth, who portrays the widow with great dignity and an undertone of sadness. She was featured earlier in Riklis' The Syrian Bride. When asked about the apparent gap between Israeli filmmakers, who tend to sympathize with the Palestinian viewpoint, and the Israeli electorate, which now seems to favor a more hard-line policy with the ascent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Riklis said: "I don't think Israelis are becoming more prejudiced." Rather, "people are becoming tired; they are fed up with what is happening. They want to live normal lives." LI riPPI/ ay • 39530 W 14 Mile in the Hiller Shopping Center • Pho to by Eita TAR ELI Arts & Entertainment Lemon Tree is scheduled to open Friday, May 15, at the Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield Township. (248) 263-2111.