Even the most casual exchanges at the festival ended with some variation of a sentiment that arose as a mantra: “It’s complicated.”
The festival program successfully raises universal questions that transcend the context in which they’re asked.
Jerusalem Film Festival 2017: Siege, Redoubtable, The Beguiled, On the Beach at Night Alone, & More
by Greg Cwik
Jerusalem is a city of beige and tan, a vast barren sprawl that is, despite the brutal heat and muted colors, quite beautiful.
The festival’s triumph was Harmonia, a culture-hopping orchestra melodrama of paradoxically modest tone.