A drama about two families who learn that their now-teenage sons were switched at birth. The extra twist is that one family are Jews living in Tel Aviv and the other are Palestinians living on the West Bank. The two mothers are most understanding. The men, the two fathers and especially the Palestinian boy’s older brother, have a more difficult time with the situation, perhaps more so than the seventeen-year-olds in question. A minor flaw for me was that the actors don’t look more like their biological parents than the ones who raised them,
The drama (along with much of the cast) is French and so features the small contrivance that the Israeli family has a French mother (Emmanuelle Devos, best known for the thriller Read My Lips) and the Palestinian boy has just returned from studying in Paris, so much of the film is in French (but also Hebrew, Arabic, and English). The plot isn’t much, but provides a way into the issue of identity and its source. Is it instilled at birth, and so can be taken from you, or is it something you can choose?
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viewed 10/31/12 7:35 pm at Ritz 5 and reviewed 10/31/12
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