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Talmudic egos and ambitions collide
in familial Footnote.
movie, in part because we might expect
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ootnote, the marvelous fourth
feature by Israeli director Joseph
Cedar and his wittiest and most
accomplished, begins with music remi-
niscent of melodra-
matic Hollywood thrill-
ers of the 1940s.
The absurdly omi-
nous score is so over
the top that it's funny.
Indeed, the direc-
tor is winking at us,
Director
acknowledging from
Joseph Cedar
the get-go that the
internal intrigue about
to unfold at the Hebrew University's
Talmud Department isn't exactly a life-
and-death situation.
Only it is, because the two people at
the center of Footnote's nasty yet often
comic mess are a father and his adult son.
And there are no higher stakes than the
relationship between parent and child —
especially when that bond is exposed and
tested by the harsh light of reality.
Footnote, which was nominated for the
Academy Award for Foreign Language
Film, is scheduled to open Friday, April
13, at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield
Township.
Footnote is a wonderfully perverse
an Israeli director to set a film about
pride, ambition, resentment and decep-
tion in the military or government.
And although Jews are, famously, the
people of the book, there's something
both anachronistic and subversive about
Cedar's rampant and varied displays of
text — from onscreen typescript to com-
puter screens to close-up passages from
books to teleprompters — in the (sup-
posedly) post-literate 2 1 s t century.
The most unexpected element of
Footnote, though, is the degree to which
its director aggressively employs cin-
ematic language to convey a tale of words
and ideas worthy of Philip Roth.
We understand the graying Eliezer
Shkolnik the moment we're introduced
to him, underdressed in a worn sweater
at an awards ceremony for his son, Uriel.
Eliezer is uncomfortable and inappropri-
ate in social situations, either because he
feels inferior to everyone else or because
he has no patience for fools (that is,
everyone).
The friendly, bearish Uriel, on the other
hand, is at his best in a crowd, soaking up
their accolades and reveling in the prime
of a successful life. He chose to follow his
difficult father into talmudic studies and
has exceeded Eliezer's career by a wide
margin with a good deal of the race still
to run.
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The Three Stooges, a slapstick
comedy from the Farrelly Brothers
(There's Something About Mary),
opens on Friday, April 13.
Original Stooges Moe Howard,
Larry Fine and Moe's brothers
Curly Howard and his replacement,
Shemp Howard were Jewish, as
was Joe Besser, who rotated in
after Shemp's death.
The plot has the Stooges (played
by non-Jewish actors) left as
infants at a Catholic orphanage.
Fast-forward to the present, and
the guys return to to help save