A Tale of Love and Darkness

Academy Award-winner Natalie Portman stars in this extraordinary adaptation of Amos Oz’s celebrated memoir set during the birth of Israel. A powerful saga unlike any other, A Tale of Love and Darkness is Oz’s love letter to his mother (Natalie Portman), who struggles with post-war realities while raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, she battles depression and can only escape in a world of daydreams. Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is an affectionate portrait that presents an astonishing visual aesthetic infusing every frame, making it a wondrous rendition of Oz’s compelling life story.