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Academy Award®-winning actress Natalie Portman directs and stars in the emotional and thought-provoking story about Fania, a young wife and mother in war-torn Jerusalem, during the early years of the State of Israel. Stifled in her relationship and weary from the tedium of her new life, Fania creates fantastical stories for Amos, her 10-year-old son, amazing him with tales of adventure and beauty - stories that would influence the boy to become a writer himself. Based on the international best-selling memoir by Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness is "the most revolutionary Jewish movie since Schindler’s List" (Stephen Marche, Esquire).

2016 · 1h 38m
Director Natalie Portman

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A Tale of Love and Darkness

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Academy Award®-winning actress Natalie Portman directs and stars in the emotional and thought-provoking story about Fania, a young wife and mother in war-torn Jerusalem, during the early years of the State of Israel. Stifled in her relationship and weary from the tedium of her new life, Fania creates fantastical stories for Amos, her 10-year-old son, amazing him with tales of adventure and beauty - stories that would influence the boy to become a writer himself. Based on the international best-selling memoir by Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness is "the most revolutionary Jewish movie since Schindler’s List" (Stephen Marche, Esquire).

COMMON SENSE

Portman's biopic of Israeli writer is earnest, ethereal.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.1
Reviews 67
Fresh 48
Rotten 19

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Studio
Focus Features
Released
2016
Run Time
1 hr 38 min
Rated
PG-13
Regions of Origin
United States, Israel
© 2015 Picture Perfect Corporation

Languages

Original Audio
English (United States), Hebrew, Hebrew (Israel), Hebrew
Audio

Hebrew (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC, SDH), French (Canada)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.