Movie Review: Reuniting the Rubins

November 30, 2011 by  

The premise was promising: Timothy Spall as a dutiful Jewish son whose emotionally blackmailing mother (Honor Blackman) demands a family reunion for the upcoming Seder.  A Rubins family Last Supper…writes Tali Lavi. Read more

Jewish Film Festival Review – Nicky’s Family

November 20, 2011 by  

Nicky’s Family

One of the most potent fictionalised responses to the Holocaust must be that of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz wherein a grown man comes undone, fragmented by the discovery of his suppressed history…writes Tali Lavi. Read more