A Tale of Love and Darkness (film)

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Film poster
Directed by Natalie Portman
Produced by Ram Bergman
David Mandil
Natalie Portman
Screenplay by Natalie Portman
Based on A Tale of Love and Darkness 
by Amos Oz
Starring Natalie Portman
Music by Nicholas Britell
Cinematography Sławomir Idziak
Edited by Andrew Mondshein
Hervé Schneid
Release dates
  • May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16) (Cannes)
Running time
95 minutes
Language Hebrew

A Tale of Love and Darkness is a 2015 drama film directed by Natalie Portman, based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Israeli author Amos Oz, taking place at Jerusalem in the last years of Mandatory Palestine and the first years of independent Israel. It was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2] It is Portman's directorial feature debut. It was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Cast

Production

Director and cast at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

According to Portman she optioned the rights to the book over tea while visiting with Oz and his wife. It took her eight years to write the script and find funding during which time she insisted that the adaptation remain in Hebrew.[4]

It is the first film in which Portman speaks Hebrew. In order to play the role of Amos Oz's mother, an immigrant from East Europe, Portman took considerable efforts to remove all traces of an American accent from her Hebrew.

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