Alyah
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Alyah is a 2012 French drama film directed by Elie Wajeman.[3][4]
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Plot
Alex, a 27-year-old Jewish drug dealer who lives in Paris, plans to do his Aliyah and move to Israel for the chance of a better life.[3][4][5] His brother, Isaac, keeps pestering him for money.[3][4] During the course of a Shabbat dinner at their aunt's house, we learn they lack parental support.[3] Alex's desire to move to Israel is not so much grown out of Zionism, but because nothing holds him back in France, in spite of his recent encounter with a gentile girl, Jeanne.[3][4][5] The final scene highlights Israel's multicultural culture.[3]
Cast
- Pio Marmaï as Alex Raphaelson
- Cédric Kahn as Isaac Raphaelson
- Adèle Haenel as Jeanne
- Guillaume Gouix as Mathias
- Sarah Lepicard as Esther
- David Geselson as Nathan
- Olivier Desautel as Polo
- Jean-Marie Winling as the father
- Mar Sodupe as Anaëlle
- Aimé Vaucher as Gabriel
- Bertrand Constant as Claude
- Marion Picard as Rébecca
- Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman as the aunt
- Louise Roch as Lucie
- Jean-Baptiste Azéma as the customer
- Sophie Piccioto as the secretary of the consistory
- Zohar Wexler as Nadav
- Djibril Gueye as a friend of Polo's
- Kianoush Moghadam as another friend of Polo's
- Daniel Eliya as the security guard of the Jewish agent's
- Michaël Abiteboul as the shaliah
Reception
The film was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[6][7] It was also shown at the 2012 Haifa International Film Festival and the Cabourg Film Festival.[8][9]
Variety reviewed the film favorably, suggesting the cast was "solid." and that the film deserve a "wider audience" than "Francophone arthouses and Jewish fests".[3] For Les Echos, it is "the best French film in a long time", as it shows many social classes in Paris, and admits the fact that Paris, as pretty as it is, has nothing left to offer.[4]
References
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Alyah at IMDb
- ↑ Gregg Kilday, Film Movement Picks Up Elie Wajeman's 'Aliyah', The Hollywood Reporter, 6/14/2012
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Boyd van Hoeij, Aliyah, Variety, 20 May 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Adrien Gombeaud, Alyah d'Elie Wajeman, Les Echos, 19/09/2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guillaume Loison, Alyah d’Elie Wajeman, Le Nouvel Observateur, 18 September 2012
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- ↑ Haifa Film Festival
- ↑ Festival du film de Cabourg
