We begin in Paris with the “rebirth” of Yoav, a disoriented Israeli fleeing a country that has fled him, who in his disillusioned madness turns to a new nation to recreate himself. The film “Synonym” ...
The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...
In eschewing claims to an unmediated reality, Synonyms reveals truths about French society often masked by reality itself, while Young Ahmed obscures crucial systemic injustices in Belgium under the ...
The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...
Not Rated. In French and Hebrew with subtitles. At Kendall Square Cinema. A strange beast, indeed, Nadav Lapid’s French-Israeli entry “Synonyms” gives us a strapping Israeli ex-soldier protagonist ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
At the heart of the obliquely thrilling“Synonyms” lies an existential question: Can we ever truly change who we are? Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid grapples with thishead-on in the story of Yoav (Tom ...
The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...
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