Rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, but less popular in Israeli government circles (Israel's Minister of Culture condemned the film when it won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in the fall), Foxtrot is a truly extraordinary work from Samuel Maoz (Lebanon)
Date/Time: Mar 27 2018, 8:30 pm to 9:42 pm
Vancouver, Vancity Theatre | Event calendarAge: 19+
Cost: $13.00
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It is a film about grief. Michael and Dafna are stunned when army officials show up at their door - the movie’s very first shot - to inform them their son Jonathan is dead. What follows falls into three main parts: the immediate aftermath of the news, with all its horror and rage, is succeeded by a very different and weirdly compelling flashback to Jonathan’s military posting at a remote, isolated checkpoint… And the final section, about which the less you know in advance, the better!
"Like any film that depicts the daily boredom, loneliness, and fear soldiers experience—as well as the gauntlet of suffering visited upon their parents when they’re killed in action—Foxtrot can be considered anti-war and perhaps even anti-military. But it plays less like a specific indictment than something more mysterious: a tale of lives at the mercy of cosmic, karmic design. By the time Maoz has brought his film full circle, returning to and finally clarifying his first shot, a sense can be made of what’s happened to this family. But there’s not much comfort in that sense, for them or us." AA Dowd, AV Club
"Lebanon director Samuel Maoz went in a risky direction by making a film as different and daring as Foxtrot, and his boldness pays off in ways that make one reach for superlatives…no film will be able to deal with a similar subject without being weighed against Foxtrot. Brilliantly constructed with a visual audacity that serves the subject rather than the other way around, this is award-winning filmmaking on a fearless level." Jay Weissberg, Variety
"A movie that builds into a devastating indictment of a nation, shock by shock, brutal moment by brutal moment." Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQBpsQVRnE
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