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Synonymes

Drama - Fr/IL, 2019, M/14, 123 min. V. O. em Francês, Inglês e Hebraico/Legendado em Português/English Subtitles

Realização: Nadav Lapid
Argumento: Nadav Lapid, Haim Lapid 
Fotografia: Shai Goldman
Com: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte

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Israeli co-writer/director Nadav Lapid's unusual migration drama follows Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young Israeli man who is determined to erase his national identity and become French. With the help of a Franco-Israeli dictionary, he resolves to stop speaking Hebrew, put his troubled past behind him and ace his upcoming naturalisation test.

Lapid presents variants of embattled Israeli identity, continuing the thematic investigation conducted in his first two features, Policeman and The Kindergarten Teacher. By setting Synonyms outside of Israel, Lapid introduces an explicit international dimension for the first time. Yoav imagines France as an utopia, whose core egalitarian values – liberté, égalité, fraternité – and strict separation of church and state are the opposite of Israel’s

Lapid continues to exhibit a singular blend of intensity and absurdity, as well as a distinct attention to cinematic craft. Working once again with cinematographer Shai Goldman, he covers entire scenes in lengthy medium close-ups that serve to heighten the constant sense of claustrophobia, pushing the characters (and the viewer) to the breaking point

2019: Berlin International Film Festival: Urso de Ouro - Melhor Filme, Prémio FRIPESCI
2019: Sydney Film Festival: Nomeado Melhor Filme