Cedar's

Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote, probably my favourite film of the festival.

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The film was partly inspired by Cedar's own experience as an Oscar nominee for his last feature, war film Beaufort, but this is closer to something like the Coen brothers' A Serious Man or a David Lodge campus comedy.

Antisemitism, paedophilia, sex and talking beavers: Cannes film festival 2011 round-up§ 2011

Writer-director Joseph Cedar's last film -- Beaufort -- was set almost entirely inside a tank.

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From one day to the next you can go from a gorgeous vision of apocalypse (Lars von Trier's Melancholia), to a shivery Amerindie film about the fallout of a sinister cult on a young woman's psyche (Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene), to a stylish Israeli film with biblical undertones about the bonds between a father and son (Joseph Cedar's Footnote.)

Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011

Writer-director Joseph Cedar's last film -- Beaufort -- was set almost entirely inside a tank.

Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Three: A Pope, A Pianist, A Philogoist and More! Michael Giltz 2011

From one day to the next you can go from a gorgeous vision of apocalypse (Lars von Trier's Melancholia), to a shivery Amerindie film about the fallout of a sinister cult on a young woman's psyche (Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene), to a stylish Israeli film with biblical undertones about the bonds between a father and son (Joseph Cedar's Footnote.)

Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011

From one day to the next you can go from a gorgeous vision of apocalypse (Lars von Trier's Melancholia), to a shivery Amerindie film about the fallout of a sinister cult on a young woman's psyche (Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene), to a stylish Israeli film with biblical undertones about the bonds between a father and son (Joseph Cedar's Footnote.)

Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011

From one day to the next you can go from a gorgeous vision of apocalypse (Lars von Trier's Melancholia), to a shivery Amerindie film about the fallout of a sinister cult on a young woman's psyche (Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene), to a stylish Israeli film with biblical undertones about the bonds between a father and son (Joseph Cedar's Footnote.)

Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011

From one day to the next you can go from a gorgeous vision of apocalypse (Lars von Trier's Melancholia), to a shivery Amerindie film about the fallout of a sinister cult on a young woman's psyche (Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene), to a stylish Israeli film with biblical undertones about the bonds between a father and son (Joseph Cedar's Footnote.)

Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011

France has instead put forward Valérie Donzelli's cancer drama Declaration of War; Germany has offered Wim Wenders's Pina; Israel has proposed Joseph Cedar's excellent Footnote opening the UK Jewish film festival next month; and Finland has had no hesitation in entering Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, even though it is shot in France, in French.

Trailer trash 2011