Foxtrot (2017)
Country: ISR/FR/GER/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Lior Askkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Synopsis:
Four different twists of fate lock an Israeli family into a closed circle of suffering.
Review:
A contemporary, almost blackly comic, version of the old maxim, 'The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their sons', this slow to unfold drama follows a couple who are wrongly informed of their soldier son's death, whereupon we witness their differing ways of responding to the news and its sequel. The titular dance refers both to the cycle of karma, whether originating in the father's past or in the soldier's (and parents') present: you move out of the way of the oncoming only to step back into the line of fire two beats later. Editing is deliberate, camera movements precisely choreographed, lateral tracks so smooth as to be disembodied, the overhead shots reducing the characters to the status of white mice in a laboratory.
Country: ISR/FR/GER/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Lior Askkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Synopsis:
Four different twists of fate lock an Israeli family into a closed circle of suffering.
Review:
A contemporary, almost blackly comic, version of the old maxim, 'The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their sons', this slow to unfold drama follows a couple who are wrongly informed of their soldier son's death, whereupon we witness their differing ways of responding to the news and its sequel. The titular dance refers both to the cycle of karma, whether originating in the father's past or in the soldier's (and parents') present: you move out of the way of the oncoming only to step back into the line of fire two beats later. Editing is deliberate, camera movements precisely choreographed, lateral tracks so smooth as to be disembodied, the overhead shots reducing the characters to the status of white mice in a laboratory.
Country: ISR/FR/GER/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Lior Askkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Synopsis:
Four different twists of fate lock an Israeli family into a closed circle of suffering.
Review:
A contemporary, almost blackly comic, version of the old maxim, 'The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their sons', this slow to unfold drama follows a couple who are wrongly informed of their soldier son's death, whereupon we witness their differing ways of responding to the news and its sequel. The titular dance refers both to the cycle of karma, whether originating in the father's past or in the soldier's (and parents') present: you move out of the way of the oncoming only to step back into the line of fire two beats later. Editing is deliberate, camera movements precisely choreographed, lateral tracks so smooth as to be disembodied, the overhead shots reducing the characters to the status of white mice in a laboratory.