Uma História de Amor e Trevas (2015)

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• Baseado em: A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness is a 2015 drama film written and directed by Natalie Portman in her directorial feature debut. Based on the memoir of the same name by Israeli author Amos Oz, it takes place in Jerusalem in the last years of Mandatory Palestine and the first years of independent Israel. It stars Amir Tessler as Oz, and Gilad Kahana and Portman as his parents. It was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Production

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.

It is the second film in which Portman speaks Hebrew. In order to play the role of Amos Oz's mother, an immigrant from what is now Ukraine, Portman made considerable efforts to remove all traces of an American accent from her Hebrew.

Portman recruited designer Alber Elbaz to design the costumes she wore in the film.

The film’s modest $4.2 million budget was partially funded by the right-leaning Israeli government, which has an interest in promoting Israel as a filming location for international productions and countering pro-Palestinian boycott efforts. Portman said the film was "absolutely not" pro-Israeli or patriotic and that she was "very much against" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In March 2016, Focus World acquired the rights to distribute a theatrical release of the film in the United States.

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