Comments on: A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) – An Aptly Named Bleak and Hopeless True Story https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-review Romance That Entertains And Inspires Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brittaney B https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-review/#comment-5353 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:53:00 +0000 https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/?p=39452#comment-5353 In reply to Malena Lannister.

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I have not read the book and I imagine that it would have given me a much better lens through which to view the film. Perhaps the film should have been clearer about its purpose and just stuck to one tale instead of trying to tell several.

]]> By: Malena Lannister https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-review/#comment-4713 Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:41:00 +0000 https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/?p=39452#comment-4713 In a nutshell, this is a difficult period to write about (if done from a Jewish perspective) and impossible to film about. It happened to Otto Preminger almost half a century ago, when he tried to translate “Exodus” into film. The birth of Israel is a contentious subject.
I read the book, couldn’t say I enjoyed it, it was bleak, but I admired the prose and felt for the characters. Oz, a wonderful writer, is trying to exorcize his own traumatic childhood memories, but his narrative is also laced with historical allusions.
Natalie, G-d bless her, she looks so beautiful in the film, but I feel she tackled something too big for her to handle. She was born in Jerusalem, she carries an Israeli passport, she could be called Zionist, but foremost she is Miss Political Correctness therefore she doesn’t want to offend. The book is focused on the author and how he felt and perceived his childhood world. Natalie chooses to focus on Fania, her personal history, the Europe she left behind, her expectations of what her new land would bring her, and how, when her expectations fail, she finds refuge in her own tales. Losing contact with reality makes Fania innocent of whatever happens around her, That’s the reason why Portman couldn’t (most probably didn’t want to) include historical data. Whatever historical details take place in the film are mere background events for a woman who lives in her own private space.

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