Review of Footnote (2011) by David F — 16 May 2012
This is a slow, quiet film with modest ambitions that takes place among professors, scholars and journalists and is set in libraries, banquet halls and government ministersâ(TM) offices. An Israeli film about a family in which two generations are devoted to the close textual study of the Talmud, the way in which that text was passed down through generations is used as an analogy to the way that scholarly values are passed from father to son in the family featured in the film.
The film is anything but flashy and part way in, when the awarding of a major academic prize is botched it becomes painfully slow, circular and introverted. It explores the themes of family feuds and academic feuds which are buried beneath layers of silent envy and hurt and it offers some small insights and gentle revelations to the patient.
This review of Footnote (2011) was written by David F on 16 May 2012.
Footnote has generally received positive reviews.
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