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Directed by 'House of Sand Fog's' Vadim Perelman, this offbeat drama about a transit camp prisoner who feigns knowledge of Farsi to survive overcomes its narrative missteps

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

A contrived triumph of the human spirit-style narrative where the Jewish character at the center is rendered a cypher for suffering while his Nazi tormentors are unconsciously humanized.

Directed by "House of Sand Fog's" Vadim Perelman, this offbeat drama about a transit camp prisoner who feigns knowledge of Farsi to survive, overcomes its narrative missteps.

Stories of family, injustice, love, religion, politics and war encompass the 23rd annual Dayton Jewish International Film Festival slated June 1-29 ac

The point is, survival stories often hinge on coincidences and how much you can accept the ones in this movie is very personal.

The Sutton Hoo excavation of 1939 was as important to Britains creation myth as Wood Quay would be to Dublins. Unlike Wood Quay, however, the large burial mounds near Suffolk in south-east England were carefully and respectfully approached, with landowner Edith Pretty initiating the archaeological dig at her own expense.

Rating: Consider the calibre of films that have been adapted from Booker or Man Booker Prize-winning novels: Schindlers List, The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day and Life Of Pi were all festooned with awards of their own, and two of them won Best Picture Oscars. In truth, though, there have also been a few duds. I thought 2017s The Sense Of An Ending, inspired by the Julian Barnes book, a terribly dreary affair. With the new Netflix release The White Tiger, Im happy to say, the list bu...