The KAZU MovieClub Presents Footnote
The KAZU MovieClub Presents Footnote
Date: April 28th 2012
Time: 9:30am
Where: Osio Cinemas
Language: Filmed in Hebrew with English Subtitles
Movie Description: Footnote is a film that follows the great rivalry between two Israeli professors of Talmudic Studies who are also father and son. Uriel Shkolnik is an up- and- coming star in the field and has won numerous awards for his research. While his father Eliezer Shkolnik has never won an award and his only claim to fame is his name mentioned in a Footnote of his mentor’s book.
For the first time in twenty years Eliezer won an award, the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country. Unfortunately it was an accident, the award belongs to Uriel. Uriel is at a loss of whether to correct the mistake or if he can actually re-gift the honor to his father.
NY Times’ A.O. Scott says, "…Mr. Cedar spins a committee-room squabble into something authentically grand: a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”
NPR’s Mark Jenkins says, “Joseph Cedar's film has many such absurdist touches, yet it's as much tragic as comic. There's genuine faculty-lounge pathos in its tale of a father who doggedly pursues scholarly minutiae and the son who's entered the same field, but takes a big-picture approach.”
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